“A lyrical slow burn of a film that expertly holds back wellsprings of emotion, until it unleashes a deluge.”
—Ann Hornaday, The Washington Post
“PAST LIVES, folding two decades into less than two hours, is as swift and fleet as it is emotionally and philosophically expansive.”
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance from writer-director Celine Song starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro.
