Past Lives

Past Lives follows Nora and Hae Sung, childhood sweethearts in Seoul who lose touch when Nora emigrates to Canada. Decades later, they reconnect online and eventually reunite in New York, where Nora is now married, forcing them to confront unresolved feelings and the lives they might have lived. The film is a tender, bittersweet meditation on identity, belonging, destiny, and the roads not taken.

• Celine Song's debut feature film, based on her own life.
• The bar scene was filmed in a real New York bar.
• Greta Lee learned conversational Korean for her role.
• Film was shot in Seoul, New York, and online via Zoom.
• Received two Academy Award nominations including Best Picture.

• "If you leave something behind, you gain something too. That's what it means to move somewhere."
• "In Korean, there's a word called In-Yun. It means providence or fate."
• "What if I stayed? What would have happened?"
• "You're in the city I live in. You're so close."
• "Maybe in another life, we'll meet again."