the life organised ☽

film review

Past Lives

★★★★☆  film

Past Lives

Two childhood friends find one another again across decades and continents, trailing the question of the life that went unlived. Celine Song takes ‘in-yun’, the fate that keeps drawing two people back together, and renders it unbearably real over a quiet bar table.

what it left me with

You can mourn a life you never lived and still choose the one you have. Both truths sit in the same body, at the same table, and neither cancels the other.

this is one entry from a wandering list of films, books, shows and albums, kept by someone trying to live a slightly more deliberate life.

visit the full site

more films, reviewed with feeling