It is not unprecedented to have a Sundance-premiering film play in the Berlinale competition. Yet director Celine Song’s journey with “Past Lives,” which received raves in Park Ci…
,” which received raves in Park City and makes its international bow in Berlin, feels like a fresh phenomenon. She’s a first-time filmmaker. Her movie has no big names. And it is unapologetically personal.
So “Past Lives” feels gorgeously new, but it’s also involved in evergreen ideas about love and fate. Tracing the decades-spanning, continents-bridging connection between childhood sweethearts Nora and Hae Sung , it is inextricably informed by Song’s own life. She, like Nora, is a playwright who emigrated from Korea to Canada as a kid, and now lives in New York with her American writer husband. Yet the notion that it could be too specific to be relatable didn’t really trouble her.
Those contradictions are embodied by the two male characters, Hae Sung and Arthur , Nora’s eventual husband, but Song was careful to make them live beyond their function as signifiers. “Hae Sung is an ordinary guy, who, to me, is heroic because he asks nothing of Nora except to love her.” And Arthur, though she acknowledges it would have been easy to “villainize that particular character … is somebody who can be believable as also being capable of just a stunning amount of love.
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