“Uplifting and Heartbreaking”: This film is rated 4 out of 5 by the press and 4.1 out of 5 by the audience.

Presented and awarded at many prestigious festivals, Past Lives – Nos vies d’avant is the first film of the American Celine Song. Released in our cinemas this week, this moving slice of love and uprooting has been very well received by the French press, averaging 4/5 (on AlloCiné, 29 media and as of December 15).

What are you doing?

At the age of 12, Nora and Hae Seung are childhood friends, platonic lovers. Circumstances separate them. At the age of 20, chance connects them for some time. At the age of 30, they, as adults, face what they could have been and what they could become.

What does the press think?

According to GQ:

“Nos vies d’avant” Celine Song signs the first film about the incredible delicacy of love and uprooting.” (Adam Sanchez) 5/5

According to L’Obs:

“In pastel pictures, a very beautiful search for lost time, like a dried flower in an old book.” (Francois Forestier) 4/5

According to La Croix:

“American playwright Celine Song has created a heartbreaking first film inspired by her own story.” (Corinne Renu-Natil) 4/5

According to Ecran Large:

“With Past Lives, Celine Song delivers much more than her first feature film about young love and the complexity of immigration. The filmmaker delivers a fair and disarming piece about the importance of our history and the time to move forward.” (Adrienne Roche) 4/5

This is one of the most exciting movies of 2023: Past Lives, a love story gone wrong in cinema.

According to Mariana:

“This impressionistic and whispery piece of fiction deserves not to be overlooked in the deafening din of year-end releases.” (Olivier de Bruyne) 4/5

According to Defector:

“The most beautiful thing is the mixture of precision, restraint and delicacy in the gestures of a filmmaker who is already extremely confident for a first film.” (Serge Kagansky) 4/5

According to Le Monde:

“A simple story, as old as time, which past lives trace with the precision of a metronome, the delicacy of a master clock.” (V. Cau.) 4/5

According to the Prime Minister:

“Detached from all artifice, sublimated by an intimate staging, this drama fascinates with the emptiness, the words unspoken, without feeling. Regret is everywhere, sadness everywhere.” (Lucy Chicker) 3/5