Vidas pasadas

I loved the film, it stayed with me for days.

People who watch it will either find it to be super boring or will keep thinking about it for days.

The cinematography, the dialogues, performance and Score are just beautiful. The silent moments between them are beautiful too.

I do not recommend this to everyone, but if you love movies like Before Sunrise trilogy or the Irish movie Once or Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless mind. You will love this one too.

But, for me having watched the 2018 Indian film 96 many times I could not stop comparing these two movies. , I mean the subway scene with them holding the pole just staring at one n another.

The What ifs. Both the movies are so similar concept wise.

They say that the best kisses, the best loves, the best love stories are those that never happened, those that are idealized and remain in fantasy. Past Lives is that.

It is a beautiful film, very well directed, very mature. The dialogues are fantastic, the resolution, as it should be. The theme is the path, perhaps the theme of the time jumps and the fact that so much happens between one and the other will take you a little off. Beyond that, it is impressive that it is Celine Song's first work. As for the performances, I am far in favor of the character of the husband, very mature and deconstructed, with perhaps the best dialogues and development of the film. The last two scenes, both in the restaurant and the farewell, are by far a delight. Highly recommended.

Celine Song, in her directorial debut, makes a film whose story has little to do with the usual "movies." Past Lives is true, it is not the usual love story. It is not the usual movie love story. But it is more, because it is real, because it is true, because it is drawn from the living experience of the director. And in one way in the other, all of our lives are movies, only thanks to cinema we have the power to give a different development or ending to those stories. Instead, Song chose, bravely, to be true to what seemingly seems like a "trivial" love story of two people who are separated as children and meet again after 20 years by choice and not by chance. Two people who in the generality of their life stories, look at each other, scrutinize each other and love each other. It is a story made of silences, from which the thoughts of the two protagonists arise and arrive. It is a story made of glances and behind those glances are all the unspoken words, all those emotions that words would not render. Past Lives works because it is not what one expects from a film love story. It is real life.

Difficult to write too much about this film who offers a nice , large fist of emotions. The story itself is simple and offers minimum surprises. The 1940 decade romance air is honest, clear and, sure, in special sense, comfortable.

It is the story of two friends, from childhood, their lives across decades, their encounter and their choices. Nothing new, at first sight, but the acting is one of precious virtues in this case, like the admirable construction of story , reminding a honey drop.

In short, I have this certitude, it is one of films for who you are grateful to director and chance to see it. And this is the mattering thing, in fact.

I felt like this film touched on so many subtle, unsaid things between people: love that's lost because two people don't know how to/don't want to prioritize it, the convenience of being in some relationships, the feeling like you're saying something just because you think it's the right thing to say (especially around the people that you think need to hear it) when deep down it doesn't feel like the truth whatsoever, and going along with something because you've already committed to it instead of doing it because you want to do it. I know that's vague, but I didn't want to spoil anything, but maybe once you've seen it you'll know what I mean. It was all handled so beautifully and had such heartbreakingly sincere human experiences. I think it's safe to say that in the end, we have no effing idea what we are doing and how it will turn out, but we just hope it's the right decision in the moment.