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The weather may have finally perked up but there\u2019s an autumnal feel to this weekend\u2019s releases. When schools reopen, Hollywood usually drops the kids\u2019 films and begins pitching for the winter awards season. And Celine Song\u2019s tear-jerker is about as far away from this summer\u2019s blockbusters as you could imagine.<\/p>\n
There are no A-listers, atomic bombs or motorcycle jumps. This masterclass in restraint is powered by sparse dialogue, longing looks and pregnant pauses.<\/p>\n
The writer-director uses three separate acts, which take place over 12-year intervals, to explore the ill-fated \u00adrelationship between two childhood best friends.<\/p>\n
In the earliest segment, set in South Korean capital Seoul, 12-year-old wannabe writer Na Young (Moon Seung-ah) develops a crush on classmate Hae Sung (Leem Seung-min).<\/p>\n
\u201cI will probably marry him,\u201d the girl confides to her mum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
But shortly after the charming first date, she emigrates to Canada with her parents and the kids lose touch.<\/p>\n
In 2011, Na Young (Greta Lee) is an up-and-coming playwright who is living in New York and has adopted the Western name Nora Moon. One day, she does that late 2000s thing of tracking down old classmates on Facebook.<\/p>\n
After an awkward reunion with Hae (Teo Yoo) on Skype, an intense long-distance relationship develops across time zones, with Nora\u2019s regular night-time calls catching Hae before he heads to his engineering college.<\/p>\n
Though it\u2019s addictive, sensible Nora suspects it\u2019s unhealthy and tells a crestfallen Hae that she needs to take a break.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
It will be another 12 years until they speak again. Nora is married to fellow writer Arthur (John Magaro) when Hae decides to visit her in New York.<\/p>\n
As they talk about Inyeon, the Korean notion of fate, Moon\u2019s delicate writing and Lee and Yoo\u2019s nuanced performances slowly build towards a quietly devastating finale.<\/p>\n
Past Lives could battle Oppenheimer at the Oscars. It\u2019s just as explosive.<\/p>\n
Past Lives, Cert 12A, In cinemas now<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n [ad_2]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] The weather may have finally perked up but there\u2019s an autumnal feel to this weekend\u2019s releases. When schools reopen, Hollywood usually drops the kids\u2019 films and begins pitching for the winter awards season. And Celine Song\u2019s tear-jerker is about as far away from this summer\u2019s blockbusters as you could imagine. There are no A-listers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[765],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}