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. PAST LIVES, the multiple award-winning debut film from Korean-Canadian dramatist and film-maker Celine Song is a story of lost love and childhood crush, the painful and dangerous access to the past given by digital media; the roads not taken, the lives not led, the futile luxury of regret. And it’s a movie that speaks to the migrant experience and the way this creates lifelong alternative realities in the mind: the self that could have stayed behind in the old country, versus the one that went abroad for a new future.
“A must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities” **** The Guardian
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Rated 12A | Running Time 1 hr 46 min | Screened in English & Korean with English Subtitles