Dir. Celine Song
2023 | 106 mins | US, South Korea
English, Korean
Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro

SHOWING TIMES:

• Sat 09 Dec: 8pm
• Tue 12 Dec: 8pm

Back by popular demand!

Celine Song’s remarkable debut is a rare mature adult drama of inexpressible connections.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrenched apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life. This heartrending modern romance has been labelled one of the most effective films of the year and won the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival: London 2023.

★★★★★ “A must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities” – THE GUARDIAN

★★★★★ “Stylistically flawless, complex debut… impeccable”-  THE TIMES

★★★★ – THE INDEPENDANT

“Wry, adult and moving, but not coercively so… Past Lives may be a weepie, but it’s a hyper-sophisticated one” – THE FT

∆ BBFC Rating Details:

TRIPLE F-RATED:

Directed by a woman, written by a woman and starring a significant woman.

F-Rating is a new rating for films directed by women, written by women and/or with significant female characters on screen, in their own right. Find out more here >>

VENUE: EXETER PHOENIX, STUDIO 74

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