A semi-autobiographical work from first-time filmmaker Celine Song, Past Lives revolves around 24 years in the lives of two childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung, as they grow apart after Nora’s ...

What if the love of your life belonged to a different timeline? Past Lives doesn’t just ask that question; it lingers in it, breathes through it, and then quietly breaks your heart with it.

“Past Lives” centers on Nora (played as an adult by a terrific and subtle Greta Lee) and a boy named Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), though mostly it’s about her. The two first meet as schoolmates in ...

Past Lives sees Nora and Hae Sung have an epic reunion in New York City 24 years after they're torn apart as kids when she moves from South Korea to Canada. Song came to Canada as a child before ...

And it’s in their reunion that “Past Lives,” without breaking its casual, conversational register, becomes something quite extraordinary. New York plays its part: Nora and Hae Sung’s ...

It's also clear by the end of "Past Lives" that though Hae-sung is Nora's first love, Arthur may be Nora's fate. "In this life, you and Arthur . . . have the 8,000 layers of inyeon," Hae-sung ...

Sponsor Message Past Lives is both achingly romantic and earnestly philosophical. More than once Nora and Hae Sung use the Korean term inyun, a Buddhist-derived concept which suggests that every ...

I miss him." Arthur knows it's more than that. Hae Sung is a part of Nora's childhood identity, a past life that doesn't disappear just because she's moved into adulthood. Later, Arthur tells his ...

but who’s also jealous of the past life she shares with this Korean man, Arthur stays home playing video games by himself as Nora shows Hae-sung around New York. On a ferry ride circling the ...

Years later, when Hae Sung announces his visit to New York, Nora has built a successful career as a playwright and remains happily married. But as Arthur unravels—and Past Lives portrays Hae ...