In partnership with the Algonquin Theatre, Reel Alternatives, Huntsville’s connection to the Toronto Film Festival Film Circuit, presents their next movie, the highly acclaimed Past Lives on Monday, November 20th.
In this decades-spanning romance from writer-director Celine Song, who grew up in Markham, Ontario, two deeply connected childhood friends, Nora and Hae Sung, fatefully reunite in New York City after being wrested apart 20 years ago. A quick glance at its many glowing reviews makes it easy to understand why Past Lives is one of the most anticipated films of Reel Alternatives’ season thus far. This film presentation is generously sponsored by Gangnam Korea restaurant.
The story begins in South Korea, where 12-year-old Nora is preparing to emigrate with her family to Canada. But she is leaving someone dear behind: Hae Sung, her closest friend. Twelve years later, Nora (Greta Lee of The Morning Show) has relocated from Toronto to New York to pursue her dreams of being a playwright. Eventually, with the help of the internet, Nora finds Hae Sung and rekindles their friendship over Skype. But with 6,000 miles persistently separating them, they lose their connection again, as they once did as children.
More time passes, and the two friends — now in their 30s — reunite in person in New York. By this time, Nora is married to a writer named Arthur (John Magaro) and Hae Sung is newly out of a long-term relationship. Nora shows Hae Sung the city as they elegantly dance around their past and the fated nature of their relationship. The ties between two people over the course of their lives are expressed beautifully and succinctly in a single Korean word: in-yeon.
Past Lives is a delicately layered triptych that confronts destiny, love, and the choices that shape a life. Song’s graceful romance is about the acceptance of loss that becomes a defining part of adulthood. In English and Korean with some subtitles.
Tickets for Past Lives are on sale at the Algonquin Theatre by phone at 705-789-4975 or online at algonquintheatre.ca.
Now In its 24th year of bringing fine Canadian and international films to Huntsville, Reel Alternatives is a non-profit group that invites the community to experience movies as they were meant to be seen – on the big screen with fellow film lovers – at the beautiful Algonquin Theatre. Reel Alternatives Huntsville gratefully acknowledges its partnership with Film Circuit, presented by TIFF, and its sponsors and supporters.
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