Past Lives

What if? In Korean, there is a word In-Yun which means “connected by fate”. When two people meet, it means that their destinies were intertwined in other lives as well. A delicate modern romance, it tells the story of writer Nora and her two loves, the childhood one—Hae-Sung—and the adult one—Arthur—, taking place across continents and decades. Nora and Hae-Sung are separated by tens of thousands of kilometers, but they share an exceptionally deep bond. The poignancy of the film lies not so much in lost love as in aspects of potential parallel lives. One of the most intelligent representatives of relationship films in recent years and at the same time one of the best films of the year.

US/KR, 2023, 105 min.; en, kr / en sub / cz tit