We’re exactly a week away from the Berlin Film Festival announcing its competition lineup, but here’s some intel to whet your appetites.
Celine Song’s “Past Lives,” which will premiere at Sundance this coming weekend, has been selected for the Berlinale official competition. The A24 film is being described as a multi-decade romance in Korean language.
Berlin and Sundance have had crossover titles in the past. Last year “Call Jane” was also in Berlin competition — which only reinforces the notion that a Sundance movie selected by Berlin doesn’t automatically mean top quality.
“Past Lives” is an A24 production, so that will only add to the pre-screening buzz for this film. which is set to screen this coming Saturday at Sundance. A friend who saw it in advance last month has been bugging me for weeks about how great the film is and I’ve kinda been brushing his reaction off. Maybe he was right.
Official Synopsis:
“Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.”