In “Past Lives,” Korean Canadian filmmaker Celine Song draws on her own experience for a debut about confronting the possibilities we leave behind.
A love triangle would be a fair guess, though this isn’t the typical sort. At its center is Nora , a New York playwright in her mid-30s whose childhood sweetheart, Hae Sung , visits her for the first time since her family left Seoul more than 20 years ago. Nora lives in the East Village with her husband of several years, Arthur , a Jewish American writer who admits to feeling a bit insecure about Hae Sung coming to town.
Song, too, lived in Canada before moving to New York as a young adult to pursue a career in playwriting. She supposes she could have written the character as Korean American, skipping Canada altogether, but it felt important for her to be “twice an immigrant.” When you move as a child, you don’t usually have much input in the matter. But when Nora moves to New York as an adult, Song says, it’s clear “she really wanted to do that.
Nora’s acceptance of what comes her way falls in line with Eastern philosophy, according to Song, who says that “so much more about the Western conception of destiny is about going out to find it.” The return of a long-lost childhood love could prompt a slew of what-ifs — but those sorts of questions don’t seem to haunt Nora. She knows where she stands.
Song instructed the actors not to touch until that embrace, “an experiment which I admit I initially balked at,” Lee says. But they agreed, and “the first time we hug, that tension — it pressurized it in a way I think was right for what that moment would be.”
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