Past Lives
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Desmond Dale reviewedJanuary 24, 2025
It's both romantic and cyclical like a well written villanele. It's ripe with drama and passion while portraying fully rounded characters who are flawed in minute unique ways which lends the movie the stubby backbone of realism it needs to be worth endearing. Kudos to the screenwriter for eschewing the classic love triangle trappings and opting to show the beauty of an interrelationship between three beautiful self-aware soulmates.