“Past Lives” review: It’s a rare movie that quietly settles into some part of your own experiences and memories without a speck of narrative contrivance gumming up your response to the story on the screen. “Past Lives” is that rarity.
Thank you for supporting our journalism. This article is available exclusively for our subscribers, who help fund our work at the Chicago Tribune.It’s a rare movie that settles, quietly, into some part of your own experiences and memories without a speck of narrative contrivance gumming up your response to the story on the screen.
It’s divided into three chronological sections, with Song’s interweave of flashbacks keeping things narratively intriguing for the audience. First, in Seoul, we meet 12-year-old Na Young as a fiercely competitive student, her primary competition — and confidant and friend —being classmate Hae Sung . Perhaps they will marry someday, Na determines. She thinks this taciturn boy is “manly,” and that is enough. Then her family moves to Toronto.
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