“Past Lives,” Celine Song’s gorgeously heady and heartfelt love story, opens with its own wry version of a “three characters walk into a bar” joke. At a warmly lit counter somewhere in ...

Wells explains this past life archetype as: “You have lived as the healer and the mystic. You instinctively know what it is like to dissolve, let go, and merge with others in this way.

When Lee first read “Past Lives,” she was astounded by the ways Song subverted a conventional love triangle story. “It’s so much bigger than that,” she says.

“Past Lives” is that rarity — modest, I suppose, in scope and budget, yet expansive in its three-part, 24-year unfolding of a friendship that keeps coming back ...

In "Past Lives," Nora Moon the playwright is not sorry about her ambition, what she wants in this life. She goes from wanting to win a Nobel to a Pulitzer to a Tony.

Past Lives tells a semi-autobiographical story about a Korean-Canadian playwright living in New York (Greta Lee) who is visited by her childhood love from Korea (Teo Yoo) ...

But Past Lives is really Greta Lee’s movie, and she’s the one who turns Nora’s reconciliation with her past into something quietly monumental. Nora has no desire to leave.

"Past Lives," which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in January, is one of the most widely acclaimed movies of the year (97% positive reviews on aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes).

Past Lives is both achingly romantic and earnestly philosophical. More than once Nora and Hae Sung use the Korean term inyun, a Buddhist-derived concept which suggests that every meeting between ...

“Past Lives” opens with three people at a New York City restaurant being observed from afar. In voice-over, we hear two people speculating about who the trio might be, and what their situation is.

“Past Lives” centers on Nora (played as an adult by a terrific and subtle Greta Lee) and a boy named Hae Sung (Teo Yoo), though mostly it’s about her. The two first meet as schoolmates in ...