Past Lives: This untranslatable Korean word for eternal love has ancient Buddhist roots A24 Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro star in Celine Song's Oscar-nominated film Past Lives, which explores the word inyeon, the ancient concept of fated love. In 2023, Celine Song brought her interpretation of inyeon to life in …
Celine Song’s beautiful debut film, Past Lives, which Slate’s Sam Adams called “2023’s first great movie,” opens on a trio at a bar: an Asian man and an Asian woman talking avidly, and a white man sitting off to the side, evidently the third wheel. It all comes to a head in a remarkable scene between Nora and Arthur in …
“Past Lives,” Celine Song’s gorgeously heady and heartfelt love story, opens with its own wry version of a “three characters walk into a bar” joke. John Magaro, left, and Greta Lee in the movie “Past Lives.” By skipping over Nora’s teenage and early adult years, Song elides a lot of details and short-circuits a lot of potential immigrant-experience clichés. Crucially, …
