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Past Lives

March 2024

  • Producers of Oppenheimer Emma Thomas and Charles Roven, left, and director Christopher Nolan accept the award for best picture.

    Oscars 2024: Oppenheimer sweeps awards as it takes best picture, director and actor – as it happened

    Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy and Robert Downey Jr took home Academy awards for the atomic bomb drama, while Emma Stone won a surprise best actress honour
  • Greta Lee in Past Lives

    Best picture Oscar hustings
    Why Past Lives should win the best picture Oscar

    Celine Song’s indelible drama takes us through three life chapters and wrecks us in the process
  • Clockwise from top left: Killer of the Flower Moon, Barbie, Poor Things, Oppenheimer.

    Oscars 2024: best picture nominees – reviews, awards and where to watch

    The overall Academy Award nominations for each of the 10 best picture films, along with the Guardian’s reviews, interviews and notable prizes earned so far

February 2024

  • Emma Thomas and Christopher Nolan attend the Producers Guild of America awards 2024 in Hollywood.

    Oppenheimer comes out on top at key Producers Guild of America awards

    PGA triumph puts Christopher Nolan’s film in pole position for best picture Oscar while Celine Song’s Past Lives dominated the Independent Spirit awards
  • Christopher Nolan with Cillian Murphy after winning the top prize at the Directors Guild Of America awards for Oppenheimer.

    Christopher Nolan on track for best director Oscar after winning DGA award for Oppenheimer

    With a significant overlap in voters with the Oscars, the honour is considered a reliable bellwether for the Academy Award
  • Paul Mescal Frankie Corio in Aftersun

    The seven best films to watch on TV this week
    Aftersun to Past Lives: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

    Paul Mescal stars in an utterly lovely, delicately heartbreaking portrait of a father-daughter relationship; while a wonderful, wistful romance grapples with first love

January 2024

  • Peter Bradshaw

    Oppenheimer triggers likely Oscars landslide as Golden Globes snub Barbie

    Peter Bradshaw
    An unusually classy set of choices from the revamped Golden Globes may presage Academy Awards disappointment for last year’s big box office hit – and a sweep for its direct competitor

December 2023

  • Profound self-questioning … Greta Lee and Teo Yoo in Past Lives.

    Best movies US 2023
    Best movies of 2023 in the US: No 1 – Past Lives

  • IMDb Exclusive Portrait Studio At The 2023 Critics Choice Celebration Honoring Black, Latino &amp; AAPI Achievements<br>LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - DECEMBER 04: Greta Lee poses in the IMDb Exclusive Portrait Studio at the 2023 Critics Choice Celebration Honoring Black, Latino &amp; AAPI Achievements at Fairmont Century Plaza on December 04, 2023 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Rowe/Getty Images for IMDb)

    Best films UK 2023
    Greta Lee on Past Lives: ‘Seeing an Asian woman 15ft high felt so radical and really dangerous’

  • Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives.

    Best films UK 2023
    Best films of 2023 in the UK: No 1 – Past Lives

  • Peter Bradshaw

    It’s Barbenheimer mark two at the Golden Globes as blockbusters face off once again

    Peter Bradshaw

September 2023

  • Teo Yoo and Greta Lee, both in buttoned shirts, sit in front of a merry-go-round

    I’m half-Korean, half-English, and the acclaimed film Past Lives rings true to me

    The five-star movie explores lives torn between two cultures. It reminds me of my mother’s struggles – and how I have created my own identity
  • The fantasy of a reunion … Greta Lee as Nora Moon and Teo Yoo as Hae Sung in Past Lives.

    Many unhappy returns: why Asian immigrant cinema is challenging the meaning of home

    From Crazy Rich Asians to new romance Past Lives, a raft of recent movies has featured reconnections with distant homelands – deftly addressing complex questions around diaspora and identity
  • John Magaro and Greta Lee in Past Lives.

    Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
    Past Lives review – a must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities

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

August 2023

  • Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives, Celine Song's debut film out August 2023 in AustraliaPAST-LIVES Teo-Yoo Greta-Lee Aug31

    Celine Song on adapting her life for surprise hit Past Lives: ‘It becomes its own story’

    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

June 2023

  • Teo Yoo and Greta Lee in Past Lives, a gorgeous, deft debut from Celine Song.

    Past Lives: the powerful yearning of what might be 2023’s best movie

    Celine Song’s remarkable debut is a rare mature adult drama of inexpressible connections and one of the most effective films of the year

January 2023

  • A still from Past Lives by Celine Song, an official selection of the Premieres program at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

    First look review
    Past Lives review – delicately sad romantic drama is a real achievement

    Playwright Celine Song makes her film debut with a beautiful, aching story about childhood sweethearts reconnecting
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