Premiering at Sundance Film Festival in early 2023 was Celine Song’s miraculously resonant film Past Lives, which has gone from strength to strength, becoming one of 2023’s most critically acclaimed movies. The film, which covers a timespan of 24 years, owes a lot of its philosophical ruminations to Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, the least of which being the elements that amount to the consistent humming undercurrent of the meet-cute trope, proving that Before Sunrise continues to maintain its legacy. Perhaps the lyrical pathos which embodies Past Lives has purported it becoming a modern day successor to the 1995 classic.
This article was posted on September 10th 2023. Full article linked below.
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