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

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

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…

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