He arrives on TV on Rai 3 Friday 13 February Past Lives, a work before the South Korean director and writer Celine Song, a definitely not simple film not suitable for those looking for easier stories with ever-finished loves and precipitous escapes towards immortal happiness. Awarded to Sundance and the Berlinale and premiered at the Film Festival in Rome, the film won the nominations in the main categories of Golden Globe and Oscars. A film to be seen, without any doubt, but be ready for an unspoilt viewing experience. We promise it’s worth it.
Past Lives, una storia d’amore?
Nora and Hae Sung go to school together, and they love each other very well. They are too young to understand it, but what is blossoming among them is a pre-adolescential and childish love, which will idealize for years to come. At just 12 years, in fact, they are forced to separate. Nora’s family emigrates to Canada. 12 years later, at 24 years old, they find themselves but at a distance. Nora lives in New York, where she is studying to become a writer, Hae Sung remains in Seoul. The distance makes it difficult for a desired approach, and Nora decides to close communications.
Their lives go on. 12 years later, at age 36, Nora is married and leads her life to New York. Hae Sung finally decided to visit her. His worlds meet and collide, and in their convergence the protagonist discovers something of himself and of his personality, which will always remain deeply decoupled. The story is taken from the experience of Celine Song, who said: “I was sitting there among these two men who loved me in different ways, in two different languages and two different cultures. And I was the only reason these two men spoke to each other. There is something almost science fiction in this. You feel like someone who can transcend culture, time, space and language.”.
Past Lives, un film difficile da vedere
In this film there are many things – after all we follow the two protagonists for years and years – but nothing seems to happen. They are not showing unpleasant things but there is a very strong internal tension that results in a sense of waiting and trepidation of something horrible, of an explosion after so much tensive construction.
To emphasize the feeling of closing the fact that the environments repeat, the characters are only three. Supporting this tension could affect our vision experience, but Past Lives is a film that digests in cold mind, to which you wake up thinking the next morning, which appreciates every second more as it marinates in your head, which, just like the affection between Nora and Hae Sung builds in the absence, all of subtraction, expectations, imagination.
Che però rimane
The direction is delicate but present, made entirely of photography, construction of the image and assembly, writing is remarkable. The dialogues are similar, so much so that they are almost embarrassing. It almost seems to be in that bed with Nora and her husband, to exhort them to speak, to communicate, to set aside their fears.
This film deliberately neglects dramatization and purely emotional drive to give us an adult and conscious vision of emotions, relationships, sometimes opposite thrusts that can live in a human being. The characters are three-dimensional. Faced in a delicate and universal way also the theme of departure, the doubleness of those who leave, the waiting of those who remain.
Il cast
Greta Lee is Nora, writer who lives in New York. Teo Yoo is Hae Sung, his childhood friend. John Magaro is Arthur, husband of Nora, who accepts and understands this connection to him mysterious and unknown. Seung Ah Moon is a young Nora while Seung Min Yim is a young Hae Sung.
Dove in streaming
The film is in the catalog of Timvision and rental and or purchase on CHILI, Rakuten TV, Apple TV Store.
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