Past Lives
(2023)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 2,450 votes
Year: 2023
Runtime: 105 мин
Country: United States of America, South Korea
Director: Селин Сон
Cast: Грета Ли, 유태오, Джон Магаро, 문승아, 임승민, 윤지혜, Чхве Вон Ён, 안민영, Со Ён У, 장기하
Plot
After decades apart, childhood friends Nora and Hae Sung are reunited in New York for one fateful weekend as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
In Korea, Na Young, a girl and Hae Sung, a boy are school mates and good friends. They often walk back home together after school. Na Young moves to Canada and then to New York with her parents. Hae Sung continues living in Korea, does his engineering course, goes through a short spell of military service and then takes up a job. Both keep in touch periodically through video chats where they talk of their past and general stuff. Meanwhile in New York, Na has changed her name to Nora, made a name as a playwright and is happily married to Arthur, an American. Hae is keen to meet Nora and visits her in New York where he spends some time with her and Arthur. What has the future in store for Nora and Hae in their relationship?