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From Past Lives to Shania Twain: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Whether it’s Celine Song’s directorial debut with notes on a marriage or songs to impress from country-pop queen, our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK

Past Lives: a luxurious and lingering portrayal of lost love and identity in the Korean diaspora

Past Lives is Celine Song’s debut film about Nora and Hae Sung who were deeply connected in childhood. The film focuses on them reuniting as adults after a long separation.

The Conversation

Past Lives review: A gentle drama about first love and thirtysomething melancholy

Childhood sweethearts reunite, then reunite again, in Celine Song’s vaguely autobiographical time-hopping romance, which nicely avoids easy answers

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Past Lives movie review: Oscar-tipped drama is original, wry and hauntingly tender

Director Celine Song’s indie film shares the lo-fi intensity of classics like Brief Encounter, Annie Hall and Brooklyn

Evening Standard

Past Lives review – a must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities

Celine Song’s feature debut is delicate and sophisticated and yet also somehow simple and direct

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Past Lives digs deep into our souls, to the start of our great journeys in love

Last week I was lucky enough to catch a preview of Past Lives, the quietly devastating forthcoming debut film from director Celine Song. Some critics are already proclaiming it the film of the year, making Past Lives the tortoise to Barbenheimer’s hare. It’s a very modern, wonderfully restrained, kind-of love…

Evening Standard

Celine Song on adapting her life for surprise hit Past Lives: ‘It becomes its own story’

Less a love story than a meditation on what-ifs, the film has propelled its debut director to a rarefied strata of acclaim – and away from her own past life

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30 autumn arts highlights, chosen by Observer critics

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn

The Guardian - UK

Past Lives review: "an exquisitely judged wonder"

Total Film

Past Lives director talks immigration, Greta Lee, and lost love

EXCLUSIVE: Celine Song breaks down her emotional directorial debut

Total Film

New movies out this week: July 5-11

New releases that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.

Bangkok Post

Teo Yoo talks inyeon and "Past Lives"

The actor on embodying a traditional Korean man, overhauling how he approaches work and details of his next project

Salon

Greta Lee on How Filming 'Past Lives' Felt Like Skydiving

The actress, who has a career-defining performance in one of the year's best movies, breaks down the challenges she faced while filming the existential romance, her views on what ifs, and how she thinks Nora's story plays out.

Marie Claire

Past Lives: the powerful yearning of what might be 2023’s best movie

Celine Song’s remarkable debut is a rare mature adult drama of inexpressible connections and one of the most effective films of the year

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Past Lives' Greta Lee believes in fate after thinking she missed out on movie

Past Lives' stars Greta Lee talked about her immediate connection with the script and the process of securing the part of Nora.

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Past Lives’ a gorgeous meditation on chance and choices

Married woman reconnects with a childhood friend in Celine Song’s feature debut.

The Independent UK

In Celine Song's soulful 'Past Lives,' a triangle of love, identity and destiny

Writer-director Celine Song's “Past Lives" is both an uncommonly grounded love story and an unusually soulful immigrant tale

WhatToWatch

Past Lives review: continent, decade-spanning love story is beautifully intimate

Celine Song’s Past Lives is the kind of movie that seems simple, but is thematically rich, expertly crafted and will wow you when all is said and done.

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How to watch Past Lives

With a lot of positive buzz, many movie fans may be wondering how they can watch Past Lives. We break down all the options for you right here.

The Independent UK

Movie review: ‘Past Lives’ is a gorgeous meditation on love, chance — and the choices we make

With the lovely, soulful “Past Lives,” playwright Celine Song displays striking confidence in her debut feature film

Chicago Tribune

10 movies for summer 2023: From ‘Indiana Jones’ and ‘Barbie’ to some smaller gems

Persistent COVID cases aside: The pandemic must be over, because look at “The Super Mario Bros. Movie!” It’s made $1.2 billion worldwide. Where babysitter movies point the way to recovery — the movies that serve as babysitters, that is — an entire entertainment industry prays for many more to follow.

The Guardian - US

Oscars 2024: who might be in the running for next year’s awards?

From Colman Domingo to Saoirse Ronan, an early look at which actors and directors might win awards in 2024

Bangkok Post

Berlin film fest to award prizes as stars return

BERLIN: The Berlin film festival awards its top prizes on Saturday, including the Golden Bear for best picture, after a star-studded run that highlighted freedom struggles in Iran and Ukraine.

The Guardian - UK

Berlin film festival 2023 roundup – prestige, politics and ethical starpower

This year’s Berlinale continued the tradition of combining earnestness with red-carpet glamour – featuring Kristen Stewart, Bono and Steven Spielberg, and this time some real crowd pleasers

The Guardian - US

Past Lives review – delicately sad romantic drama is a real achievement

Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with a beautiful, aching story about childhood sweethearts reconnecting

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