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Past Lives (12A) (AD)

Oscar Week 2024

A man and a woman look at each other on the subway

Nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay, Celine Song's beautiful drama about childhood friends reconnecting years later in New York City, where past and present collide.

Reunited years later in New York, childhood friends are faced with the decision to choose between their lives as they are now, or the life they could build together, in Celine Song's beautiful drama.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

With Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro.

Tagged with: Cinema Oscar Week 2024

USA 2022 dir Celine Song 106 min

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Cinema 3

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