A Korean boy and girl attending the same school are separated when her family emigrates to North America. 12 years later, she finds out he's been trying to track her down and they begin chatting again over the internet. They find they get on just as they did as children and plans are made to visit each other, but life events get in the way, including her getting married to a fellow writer, and it's another 12 years until he finally makes it to New York to see her again.
This is far removed from the conventional love story outline. But then it isn't really about romantic love, more about attachments that never die and how people end up where they are through both choices and circumstances. The director's touch is light and sensitive and the performances of the leads nuanced. No emotional climax is forced through dramatic turns, instead things are just allowed to develop organically. Past Lives is refreshingly free of histrionics and true to real life.
8/10
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