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Past Lives
A 2023 American romantic drama film written and directed by Celine Song
14 people recommend this
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Landon GrovesFirst to rec“Dir. Celine Song”
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Hannah“This made me ugly cry in the theater, and I didn’t even try to fight it. Made me feel nostalgia + grief for all the past, current, future versions of me that will never get to exist and all the people I’ll never get to love. While of course creating the feeling of love for the version that does exist. Beautiful movie 😭”
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Luke Baker“When my wife and I finished this, we looked at each other and said, “that was perfect.” No notes. Tender and melancholic story of what could have been.”
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Cat Kesman“Past Lives is still my current favorite movie — sobbed for a good :30 min after it ended before discussing with a friend for another hour. Captures longing and our lack of control so authentically.”
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Zoë Rose Bryant“probably the movie that inspired me most while writing good friends with the exception of boyhood. while the idea for the novel had been bouncing around my brain for a bit, seeing past lives - and its depiction of childhood friends-to-lovers torn apart by time and reconnecting as adults and making sense of what they meant to each other now - helped cement the structure of the story in my mind and what its ultimate message would be. without giving away too much, the novel's resolution was greatly informed by how past lives resolved its own "one who got away" narrative (similar to la la land before it) and the belief that "you don't only get one love in this life, but you never forget your first."”
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Daytime“& when Hae Sung turns back from the cab & it cuts to a parallel youth shot”
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Stevie“There is a scene towards the last few minutes of the movie that is absolute dramatic perfection. IYKYK.”
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Taylor“If I think about this movie too much I will start to cry”
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Dylan“"But the truth I learned here is, you had to leave because you're you. And the reason I liked you is because you're you. And who you are is a person who leaves. But for him, you're the person who stays." GOD I LOVE CINEMA”
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leesey lou“a poetic commentary on how love links the past to an imagined future.”
The Analog Collective“This is a perfect movie. I don't know what else to say. It's a small story that tells a bigger story. I found it so affecting and beautiful.”
Nana & Bird“Beautiful reticence displayed by the 2 leads”
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