Nominated for the Oscars as best film and best original screenplay (among the favorites in this category) is Past Lives by Korean-Canadian director Celine Song, in theaters from 14 February with Lucky Red and first at the box office in Italy, these days with 500 thousand euro in the sign of an affirmation of quality cinema in theaters.
Past Lives is in fact among the best films of the year and this delicate, romantic, poignant, melancholy story, which is only apparently a love triangle, is not to be missed.
It is inspired by the director's true story and is a story capable of telling the new generations of expats, the power of roots and at the same time the choice to live the life we want.
Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) are two very close childhood friends, an implicit love, never declared too openly.
They separate when Nora's family from South Korea emigrates to Canada.
Two decades later they find themselves in New York, she a writer married to Arthur (John Magaro), he who wanted to see her again and they discuss destiny, love and the choices that mark the course of her life.
It happened in Celine Song's life that she found herself sitting in a bar between two men from very different periods of her life.
One was her husband from New York, the other her childhood sweetheart, who had come from Korea to visit the city.
In that bar, in the role of both translator and intermediary, Song had the strange sensation of crossing two alternative dimensions, merging them into one.
"I was sitting there between these two men who loved me in different ways, in two different languages and two different cultures. And I was the only reason why these two men talked to each other - recalls Song, a leading playwright of the theater scene of New York and here in his film debut - There's something almost sci-fi about it. You feel like someone who can transcend culture and time and space and language."
The film also features two stars from the band Grizzly Bear, Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen, who also wrote the soundtrack Past Lives, applauded at Sundance, screened at the Berlin Film Festival, presented as an Italian premiere at the Rome Film Festival, as well as various Golden Globe nominations, won numerous awards, including Best Film at the Gotham Awards, National Society of Film Critics Awards, AFI Awards.
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