During Celine Song’s exquisite and delicate Past Lives – a deeply human film about the pain of missed chances and the hard truths – they introduce the Korean phrase “In-Yun”. The concept of “In-Yun” speaks about fate and predestination. It says that the lives you lived previously, and how the minute connections we make throughout our time in this world, reverberate through the layers of life until they finally coalesce for people to find each other.
For Nora (a spellbinding Greta Lee), it’s Korean nonsense and only brought up as an attempt to seduce her future husband Arthur (John Magaro). For her childhood friend, Jung Hae Sung (Yoo Teo, charming and full of beautiful anguish), who is “very Korean” in both mannerisms and sensibilities, it gives him hope that his path will once again cross with Nora, their journey intertwined, having hopefully reached the 8000 layers of “In-Yun” that finally allows them to be together.
This review was first posted on March 2nd 2023. Full review linked below.
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