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Past Lives

2023 · Drama · Celine Song · 1h 46m

Two children who were close in Seoul are pulled apart when one family emigrates, and they find each other again twice over the next twenty-four years. Very quiet, mostly two people talking, with years skipped in between.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly slow
  • Strongly intimate

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