Past Lives won the award for best feature at the 2024 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Sunday.
After being presented the honor by Jude Law at the end of the ceremony in Santa Monica, director Celine Song took to the stage with the film’s team to share some heartfelt words.
“I’ve been tasked with the amazing opportunity to speak on behalf of these amazing, incredible filmmakers up here,” Song said. “I feel so honored to be here to talk about this movie that we got to share with you.”
The filmmaker — who also won the award for best director Sunday — went on to speak about a deeper theme that was also present in the film, and what it meant to her.
“There is a concept in our film, it’s an Eastern concept…and it is about how finding and being in the same space and time in this...
After being presented the honor by Jude Law at the end of the ceremony in Santa Monica, director Celine Song took to the stage with the film’s team to share some heartfelt words.
“I’ve been tasked with the amazing opportunity to speak on behalf of these amazing, incredible filmmakers up here,” Song said. “I feel so honored to be here to talk about this movie that we got to share with you.”
The filmmaker — who also won the award for best director Sunday — went on to speak about a deeper theme that was also present in the film, and what it meant to her.
“There is a concept in our film, it’s an Eastern concept…and it is about how finding and being in the same space and time in this...
- 2/26/2024
- by Carly Thomas
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
While the Best Supporting Actress Oscar is often awarded to an ingenue, like the 2022 winner Ariana DeBose (“West Side Story”), it can also be a way to reward a more seasoned performer. In 2023, Jamie Lee Curtis reaped her first Oscar bid at age 64 and won for “Everything Everywhere All at Once.” In 2021 Youn Yuh-jung, who is renowned in her native South Korea, won at age 73 for her first English film, “Minari.” And in 2020, the academy honored past nominee Laura Dern who finally took home an Oscar for her scene-stealing performance in “Marriage Story.” (Scroll down for the most up-to-date 2024 Oscar predictions for Best Supporting Actress.)
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While Dern was clearly a featured player in her picture, two of her rival nominees, Florence Pugh and Margot Robbie, could easily have submitted themselves in lead for their roles in “Little Women” and “Bombshell” respectively. But the studios decided to campaign only their co-stars,...
- 12/29/2023
- by Paul Sheehan and Jacob Sarkisian
- Gold Derby
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Visit the prediction pages for the respective ceremonies via the links below:
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2024 Oscars Predictions:
Best Supporting Actress Da’Vine Joy Randolph in Alexander Payne’s “The Holdovers”
Weekly Commentary: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” is one of the best reviewed films of the year, featuring a delightfully executed performance from Rachel McAdams. A former nominee for the best picture winner...
- 12/10/2023
- by Clayton Davis
- Variety Film + TV
To achieve the hyper-naturalistic, lived-in connections among her trio of characters in Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song put both her cast and crew through a number of unusual exercises.
For Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, who play childhood soulmates Nora and Hae Sung, that meant not being allowed to physically touch until the very moment their characters do onscreen, when they reunite as adults in New York City. “It becomes this really big, kind of cosmic thing to create this weird emotion of longing for each other,” Yoo tells THR. “That created a certain type of chemistry and this wonderful tension on film.”
The story unfolds in three chronological acts: 24 years ago in Seoul during the last days before Nora’s family immigrates to North America; 12 years later, when Nora and Hae Sung briefly reconnect over Facebook and Skype as students on opposite sides of the world; and then the present,...
For Greta Lee and Teo Yoo, who play childhood soulmates Nora and Hae Sung, that meant not being allowed to physically touch until the very moment their characters do onscreen, when they reunite as adults in New York City. “It becomes this really big, kind of cosmic thing to create this weird emotion of longing for each other,” Yoo tells THR. “That created a certain type of chemistry and this wonderful tension on film.”
The story unfolds in three chronological acts: 24 years ago in Seoul during the last days before Nora’s family immigrates to North America; 12 years later, when Nora and Hae Sung briefly reconnect over Facebook and Skype as students on opposite sides of the world; and then the present,...
- 12/7/2023
- by Rebecca Sun
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Past Lives is a romantic drama movie written and directed by Celine Song. The A24 film follows the story of two childhood friends, who get separated as one of them moves out of South Korea, but decades later they meet again for a fateful week in which they ruminate about love and the choices they made in their lives.
The romantic drama stars Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in the lead roles of Hae Sung and Nora. In the supporting roles, we see John Magaro as Arthur, Choi Won-young as Nora’s Dad, Moon Seung-ah as Young Nora, Leem Seung-min as Young Hae Sung, Ji Hye Yoon as Nora’s Mom, Ahn Min-Young as Hae Sung’s Mom, and Seo Yeon-Woo as Young Si Young.
Past Lives – When Did it Come Out? Credit – A24
Past Lives had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023. The romantic drama...
The romantic drama stars Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in the lead roles of Hae Sung and Nora. In the supporting roles, we see John Magaro as Arthur, Choi Won-young as Nora’s Dad, Moon Seung-ah as Young Nora, Leem Seung-min as Young Hae Sung, Ji Hye Yoon as Nora’s Mom, Ahn Min-Young as Hae Sung’s Mom, and Seo Yeon-Woo as Young Si Young.
Past Lives – When Did it Come Out? Credit – A24
Past Lives had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2023. The romantic drama...
- 9/20/2023
- by Kulwant Singh
- Cinema Blind
Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on June 8th, reviewing “Past Lives,” a different type of romance drama, exploring how past relationships still resonate. In theaters on June 9th.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) were two deeply connected childhood friends, and were split apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to America. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week … even though Nora is married to Arthur (John Magaro) … and they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that create a life, in this different kind of modern romance.
“Past Lives” is in theaters on June 9th. Featuring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah and Seung Min Tim. Written and directed by Celine Song. Rated “PG-13”.
Click Here for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “Past Lives...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Nora (Greta Lee) and Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) were two deeply connected childhood friends, and were split apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea to America. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week … even though Nora is married to Arthur (John Magaro) … and they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that create a life, in this different kind of modern romance.
“Past Lives” is in theaters on June 9th. Featuring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro, Moon Seung-ah and Seung Min Tim. Written and directed by Celine Song. Rated “PG-13”.
Click Here for Patrick McDonald’s on-air review of “Past Lives...
- 6/9/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Past Lives, writer-director Celine Song’s debut feature, opens with a guessing game: There are three people sitting at a bar, drinking in the wee hours. We’re observing the trio from a distance, unable to hear what they’re saying. Folks off-frame are making up possible back stories. The two Koreans are tourists, one of them says, and the white guy sitting to their left is their guide. No, the other replies, the lady and the white guy are a couple, and the Korean gent is their old friend.
- 6/2/2023
- by David Fear
- Rollingstone.com
Celine Song didn’t have any of the things that usually allow producers to trust a first-time filmmaker. In 2020, the New York Theater Workshop staged her play about the sea women of South Korea, “Endlings,” directed by Sammi Cannold; it received a mixed-to-positive New York Times review. However, there was no short film, no evidence of what Song herself might offer as a director. All she had, Song said, was her “seduction technique” — she believed that her script for “Past Lives” was so good that it would be the build-it-and-they-will-come of screenplays.
For so many indie filmmakers, that belief does not end well. In Song’s case, she was right.
“It’s the way that I could get collaborators to believe that I can do it,” she said over pre-strike drinks at the Culina Restaurant in Beverly Hills. “If you read the script, and you’re connected to it, then...
For so many indie filmmakers, that belief does not end well. In Song’s case, she was right.
“It’s the way that I could get collaborators to believe that I can do it,” she said over pre-strike drinks at the Culina Restaurant in Beverly Hills. “If you read the script, and you’re connected to it, then...
- 6/1/2023
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
In “The Road Not Taken,” Robert Frost makes poetry of a simple choice. Most of us know the ending, but midway through, he imagines returning one day to that metaphorical fork in order to try the other path: “Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.” In the beguiling study of untapped possibilities that is “Past Lives,” playwright Celine Song makes poetry of a similar situation, only this time, it’s a series of choices from her personal life — some she made herself, others decided for her by her parents — that set our minds to wondering about what might have been.
Song, who was born in South Korea, draws on her own history and culture in crafting this truly special feature debut, a treasure that is at once achingly autobiographical and disarmingly universal. Her script — so often understated, only to erupt with...
Song, who was born in South Korea, draws on her own history and culture in crafting this truly special feature debut, a treasure that is at once achingly autobiographical and disarmingly universal. Her script — so often understated, only to erupt with...
- 1/22/2023
- by Peter Debruge
- Variety Film + TV
Chang-bok (Yoo Jae-Myung) and Tae-in (Yoo Ah-in) sell eggs from the back of a truck in the country. It’s honest work but hardly pays the bills. So rather than go home when they change their clothes, they drive to an old, abandoned warehouse. Now donning ponchos, they spread plastic sheets below the only thing it can be hanging above: the body of a tied-up man, beaten and confused. If they’re being honest, this gig acting as set-up and clean-up crew for a local cartel doesn’t pay that much either. It’s consistent work, though, and the boss seems to like them enough to offer a couple side jobs. One such request has just been delivered.
They don’t like the task when asked and like it even less when they discover some details were left out. The boss merely stated that he wanted them to watch somebody for a couple days.
They don’t like the task when asked and like it even less when they discover some details were left out. The boss merely stated that he wanted them to watch somebody for a couple days.
- 8/18/2021
- by Jared Mobarak
- The Film Stage
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