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Past Lives: A Quiet, Powerful Look at Love and Timing

Celine Song's debut is a tender meditation on the lives we didn't live.

By Jonah Park

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Past Lives: A Quiet, Powerful Look at Love and Timing
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Few films understand longing as precisely as Past Lives. It is a love story without villains, where time itself is the obstacle.

The language of glances

Greta Lee and Teo Yoo communicate entire decades in silence.

The final walk to the taxi is one of the most quietly shattering scenes of the decade.

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