In CelineSong's soulful PastLives, a triangle of love, identity and destiny
NEW YORK -- Celine Song was 12 when she moved from South Korean to Ontario. Her parents gave her the chance to pick a new first name. There are differing theories among her family about how she settled on Celine.
"I remember feeling this thing that I've always felt: a chip on my shoulder about being ESL or not having grown up with the English language," says Song."But then I was sitting there thinking: No, I feel so, so powerful. I felt like a magician or a superhero type. These two worlds are collapsing -- time and space is folding on itself -- because of me. And I didn't have to do anything except exist. I just had to be me and that was enough.
"For me to explain who we are to each other can't be done in a sentence," Song said in a recent interview."I can't just say identity, identity, identity. It's so much more about what it's like to exist as three people and what's it like for all of them to behold the other people in the trio." Lee has been especially praised for her subtle, restrained performance as a woman not pulled between two romantic interests but casting a glance toward her past before plunging forward into her future as an artist. Song considers the movie a series of goodbyes where the first attempts don't stick. She even sees it as a"CSI"-like"conformation-of-death movie where you lift the sheet up on the dead body.
"Even though it was dubbed in German, there was a cinematic grammar that I understood where I didn't feel lonely anymore," says Yoo."That shaped the path of me wanting to become an actor."
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