Playwright-turned-Screenwriter Celine Song’s film “PAST LIVES” (2023) is a piece of art that invites every single one of us in—asking politely if it can break our hearts, then doing exactly that, but with far more pluck than most “hit” Hollywood films.
In this 2-hour seminar, we’ll parse this film’s fascinating entanglement with (and nervy subversion of!) our long rom-com “love triangle” lineage, and explore Song’s revolutionary treatment of her heroine Nora Moon as an unapologetically self-possessed woman seeking wholeness—and believing she deserves it. (What radical act of characterization is this?!)
This is emphatically NOT a “film” class and you don’t have to be a cinephile or screenwriter to join! —anyone who loved “PAST LIVES,” and writers of all modes/genres are invited! This is a town hall on truth and tenderness, open to everyone. Perhaps a thousand layers of In-Yun are bringing us together!