9/6 - Past Lives
Wednesday (9/6) we’ll be screening Past Lives, released earlier this year: the directorial debut of playwright Celine Song (who also wrote the script), starring Greta Lee.
Past Lives is a wistful what-if story about two people, the children they were and the adults they become. The movie follows them through the years and across assorted reunions, separations and continents as well as milestones momentous and ordinary. It’s a tale of friendship, love, regret and what it means to truly live here and now. In a sense it is a time-travel movie, because even as the two characters keep moving forward, they remain inexorably tethered to the past, which means it’s also a story about everyday life. — Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
This week’s movie was selected by Amanda:
I got chills the first time I watched the trailer for Past Lives, and I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. In Celine Song’s directorial debut, two childhood friends who grew up together in South Korea are reunited decades later as adults in New York City. The shameless hopeless romantic in me is very excited to see how Song will present this tender love story and that aching for the “what ifs” in our lives. For a film about inyun—the Korean belief that every meeting between two souls is the result of countless interactions in past lives—I get the sense that Song is equally interested in the countless decisions that make us who we are as individuals.
Past Lives will be playing at Working Room on Wednesday, September 9th. Doors will open at 7:30 PM and the movie will begin promptly at 8:00 PM!
If you’d like to contribute something, a beverage donation to the studio fridge is always so appreciated! ☆