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Past Lives

  • 2023
  • PG-13
  • 1h 45m
IMDb RATING
7.8/10
152K
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POPULARITY
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Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives (2023)
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. 20 years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
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Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as the... Read allNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

  • Director
    • Celine Song
  • Writer
    • Celine Song
  • Stars
    • Greta Lee
    • Teo Yoo
    • John Magaro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • IMDb RATING
    7.8/10
    152K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    352
    5
    • Director
      • Celine Song
    • Writer
      • Celine Song
    • Stars
      • Greta Lee
      • Teo Yoo
      • John Magaro
    • 552User reviews
    • 279Critic reviews
    • 94Metascore
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Nominated for 2 Oscars
      • 87 wins & 239 nominations total

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    Oscars 2024 Best Picture Nominees
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    All About Celine Song
    Clip 1:36
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    Greta Lee Gets Emotional Discussing Her Life-Changing Role in 'Past Lives'
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    Greta Lee Gets Emotional Discussing Her Life-Changing Role in 'Past Lives'

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    Greta Lee
    Greta Lee
    • Nora
    Teo Yoo
    Teo Yoo
    • Hae Sung
    John Magaro
    John Magaro
    • Arthur
    Moon Seung-ah
    Moon Seung-ah
    • Young Nora
    • (as Seung Ah Moon)
    Leem Seung-min
    • Young Hae Sung
    Yun Ji-hye
    Yun Ji-hye
    • Nora's Mom
    Choi Won-young
    Choi Won-young
    • Nora's Dad
    Ahn Min-yeong
    • Hae Sung's Mom
    Seo Yeon-Woo
    • Young Si Young
    Kiha Chang
    • Hae Sung's Friend #1
    Shin Hee-cheol
    • Hae Sung's Friend #2
    • (as Hee Chul Shin)
    Jun Hyuk Park
    • Hae Sung's Friend #3
    Jack Alberts
    Jack Alberts
    • CBP Officer
    Jane Kim
    Jane Kim
    • Actress
    Noo Ri Song
    • Na Young's Childhood Friend 1
    Si Ah Jin
    • Na Young's Childhood Friend 2
    Yoon Seo Choi
    • Na Young's Childhood Friend 3
    Hwang Seung-eon
    • Hae-sung's Girlfriend
    • Director
      • Celine Song
    • Writer
      • Celine Song
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    • Trivia
      In an interview on 2 June 2023 on NPR with Ailsa Chang, Greta Lee indicated that she found it amusing that when she told her family and friends that she was taking this role, many of them were surprised and wondered if she could even speak Korean.
    • Goofs
      There is an early scene in which Nora's and Hae Sung's mothers are conversing. At one point, the subtitle for Nora's mother's words read that they are "immigrating" to the USA. From her point of view, she and her family in fact would be emigrating, not immigrating. They are leaving their home country for another country.
    • Quotes

      Hae Sung: What if this is a past life as well, and we are already something else to each other in our next life? Who do you think we are then?

    • Connections
      Featured in WatchMojo: Top 10 Best Movies of 2023 (2023)
    • Soundtracks
      It's Not Love If It Hurts Too Much
      Written by Kim Kwang Seok

      Performed by Kim Kwang Seok

      Courtesy of STARWEAVE Entertainment

      By arrangement with Ingrooves Music Group

    User reviews552

    Featured review
    7/10

    A touching romance on the nostalgia of our childhood loves.

    Here is a film that looks nothing, offers a beautiful evening, full of sincerity and missed opportunity. Very well played and an irreproachable aesthetic, hard not to be touched by this feeling, that we all knew one day.

    The staging fits with the passing of time, we navigate in space as we navigate in our lives, our choices, our hopes and our regrets. There is something very poetic and somewhat tragic in all this and it was difficult for me not to be touched by its final which is as simple as successful.

    A film that is as touching as it is just, offering a point of view on expatriation and the roots of feelings, while offering a nice surprise on the veracity of feelings through a life and the choices that result.

    Like the characters, I didn't see the time pass...
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    • Mar 16, 2024
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    • Release date
      • June 23, 2023 (United States)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • South Korea
    • Official site
      • primevideo
    • Languages
      • Korean
      • English
      • Mandarin
      • French
    • Also known as
      • Vidas pasadas
    • Filming locations
      • Madison Square Park, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA(Nora and Hae Sung Meet in New York)
    • Production companies
      • A24
      • CJ ENM Co.
      • Killer Films
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $12,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $11,331,983
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $232,266
      • Jun 4, 2023
    • Gross worldwide
      • $42,677,159
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

    Tech specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 45 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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