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That scene re-creates a moment from director
Celine Song's life that inspired her to make the film, her first
feature, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival to rave
reviews.
The Korean-Canadian director recounts visiting a bar with her
American husband and a childhood sweetheart from Korea.
"I was looking around the bar and seeing the way that people
were looking at us. And I was like 'oh, they're all just
wondering who we are to each other and they have no idea'," Song
told Reuters at the Berlin Film Festival on Monday.
"I was like, well, what if I really decided to tell you who we
are to each other?" said Song.
In the film, Nora, played by Greta Lee, must navigate the inyeon
between her, her childhood sweetheart from pre-emigration days
in South Korea - Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) - and her life in New York
City with her husband Arthur (John Magaro).
As Nora explains to Arthur before their first kiss, inyeon is
the idea that when two people brush against each other in a
crowd, that's the culmination of events that have taken place
over thousands of years.
"We like to say that we actually have union together. This idea
from the movie that we've all known each other from our past
lives," Lee told Reuters.
"I really hope that people come for the romance and for the love
and the idea of just a simple story about love," she said. "But
maybe they can leave with something bigger about life and about
what connects us to each other as human beings."
(Reporting by Miranda Murray and Hanna Rantala; Editing by
Bernadette Baum)
(Photo: Cast members Greta Lee, John Magaro and Teo Yoo attend a
photo call to promote the movie 'Past Lives' at the 73rd
Berlinale International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany,
February 19, 2023. REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch/File Photo)
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