{"id":60098,"date":"2023-12-08T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/celine-songs-past-present-and-future\/"},"modified":"2023-12-08T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T13:00:00","slug":"celine-songs-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/08\/celine-songs-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Celine Song\u2019s Past, Present, and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><strong>When writer-director Celine<\/strong> Song broke down in tears one day on the set of <em>Past Lives,<\/em> the crew assumed it was because the scene, eerily close to her own childhood experience, was overwhelming her. They were in South Korea, filming the flashback moment when the 12-year-old protagonist of <em>Past Lives,<\/em> Nora, says goodbye to her childhood best friend, Hae Sung, as she and her family prepare to emigrate to Canada.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it was the sun that got to Song. Unable to get the light she was hoping for, she was upset not about her past but about her present: the pressure she felt to get her very first movie right. \u201cThis film is unbelievably personal to me, of course, in the conception of it, but it is unbelievably personal to me because it is a discovery for me as an artist,\u201d says Song. \u201cThis is what I\u2019ve always been meant to do. I just feel at home here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">It\u2019s fitting that Song, who previously found success as a playwright in New York, uses the word <em>home<\/em> to describe her directorial debut. <em>Past Lives<\/em> is about what home is, in so many ways. Song\u2019s script, inspired by her own life, follows Nora, a writer living in New York whose childhood sweetheart comes to visit her, opening her up to a tense exploration of her past, her identity as an adult, and the meaning of love.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Intimate yet sweeping, <em>Past Lives<\/em> was the breakout of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival, drawing praise not just for Song\u2019s distinctive storytelling and visuals, but for the performances from stars Greta Lee, John Magaro, and Teo Yoo. \u201cThe fact that all these audiences globally are responding to it, and it\u2019s a personal conversation they\u2019re having with the film, is really amazing,\u201d says Song. \u201cThis makes me feel less lonely, and that\u2019s what you dream of as an artist: that your work, when it\u2019s in the hands of the world, makes yourself feel less lonely.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-eVDQiB byBkf asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eJxoAx dBHGoQ asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-umhxW kGxnNB responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cWuUZO dUOtEa AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cXBNxi eCxVQK asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionText-bHjzlu iUEiRd hBkROF iXWezO caption__text\">John Magaro costars as Nora\u2019s husband.<\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gjQpdd BaseText-ewhhUZ CaptionCredit-ejegDm iUEiRd hCJFDV fNaHcW caption__credit\">Courtesy of A24.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap paywall\"><strong>Song talks about<\/strong> love a lot\u2014and not just because <em>Past Lives<\/em> is a modern take on the classic love triangle. In our conversations she\u2019s quick to use love as a metaphor for many things, including her romance of more than 10 years with the city of New York and her recent breakup with the theater world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">Song moved to New York from Ontario to attend Columbia University, where she earned her MFA in playwriting in 2014. The daughter of artists (her mother is an illustrator and graphic designer and her father a filmmaker), she says she always knew she wanted to be a writer and remembers writing a poem about a spider eating a butterfly while she was still living in Korea\u2014\u201cI think it was before I emigrated, so it was before I was 12,\u201d she says. She considered being a copywriter or something else in journalism but zeroed in on dramatic writing while in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The city plays a prevalent role in <em>Past Lives,<\/em> as Nora (Lee) takes Hae Sung (Yoo) around the city, from the Statue of Liberty to Jane\u2019s Carousel to Madison Square Park. For Nora, Hae Sung represents a home left behind and a life (and love) that could have been, but it\u2019s also clear that New York\u2014and her husband (Magaro)\u2014are now home. Song seems to feel the same about the city, despite its flaws. \u201cThere are rats in the streets and lantern flies are everywhere and it\u2019s flooding, so it\u2019s really hard to imagine that you can love New York that much,\u201d she tells me, breaking into a smile. \u201cBut sometimes you just feel like New York loves you because it\u2019s really just a feeling, just a certain sunlight going through the buildings. But you know that New York wouldn\u2019t give a shit if you left. So it\u2019s this amazing thing of being loved by somebody who doesn\u2019t need you at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/celine-songs-past-present-and-future-awards-insider\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When writer-director Celine Song broke down in tears one day on the set of Past Lives, the crew assumed it was because the scene, eerily close to her own childhood experience, was overwhelming her. 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