Past Lives(2023)

PG-13
1h 45m
- Drama
- Romance

Release Date: Jun 2, 2023 | Limited

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.

Releases

Original Release | Jun 2, 2023

Box Office

Results

Opening Weekend US & Canada:
$232,266
Total US & Canada:
$10,923,569
Total International
$12,755,870
Total Worldwide:
$23,679,439

Director & Top Cast

Celine Song
Director

Greta Lee
Nora

Teo Yoo
Hae Sung

John Magaro
Arthur

Moon Seung-ah
Young Nora

Leem Seung-min
Young Hae Sung

Ji Hye Yoon

Nora's Mom

Choi Won-young

Nora's Dad

Ahn Min-Young

Hae Sung's Mom

Seo Yeon-Woo

Young Si Young

Kiha Chang

Hae Sung's Friend #1

Shin Hee-Chul

Hae Sung's Friend #2

Jun Hyuk Park

Hae Sung's Friend #3

Jack Alberts

CBP Officer

Jane Kim

Actress

Noo Ri Song

Na Young's Childhood Friend 1

Si Ah Jin

Na Young's Childhood Friend 2

Yoon Seo Choi

Na Young's Childhood Friend 3

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Summaries

Storyline

In Korea, Na Young, a girl and Hae Sung, a boy are school mates and good friends. They often walk back home together after school. Na Young moves to Canada and then to New York with her parents. Hae Sung continues living in Korea, does his engineering course, goes through a short spell of military service and then takes up a job. Both keep in touch periodically through video chats where they talk of their past and general stuff. Meanwhile in New York, Na has changed her name to Nora, made a name as a playwright and is happily married to Arthur, an American. Hae is keen to meet Nora and visits her in New York where he spends some time with her and Arthur. What has the future in store for Nora and Hae in their relationship? — Madan Marwah Three early thirty-somethings, in order an Asian male, an Asian female, and a Caucasian male are sitting together at a bar, the two Asians who seem to be more engrossed with each other leaving the Caucasian on the outside. What is subsequently told is the story of the two Asians and how they got to this point. They are childhood best friends Hae Sung and Nora Moon, who, when at age twelve, were each other's first love in South Korea, they speculating that they would get married in the future. Their time together would change with Nora's family emigrating to Canada leading to them losing touch with each other until the onset of the Internet age when they would reconnect over cyberspace. This meeting at the bar in New York City, where Nora now lives, would be their first face to face in twenty years with their lives taking different paths in the intervening time including each having other significant others with the Caucasian being Nora's Jewish husband Arthur. The three will have to reconcile the thoughts of Hae Sung and Nora's twelve year old selves and how the build up of those thoughts over twenty years will affect their current realities. — Huggo