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‘Past Lives’ Writer-Director Celine Song On Telling A Bilingual Immigrant Story, Pushing Through The Feeling Of “Hollywood Doesn’t Want This”
One night, writer-director Celine Song found herself in an East Village bar in New York. On one side of her sat her husband, on the other her childhood sweetheart from Korea. As she translated the …
Greta Lee stars as Nora, a happily married New Yorker who is visited by Hae Sung ( Teo Yoo), the boy she loved as a child in Seoul. Here, she describes the experience of telling a version of her own story, the industry challenges of writing a bilingual script, and why being new to feature directing actually worked in her favor creatively. So literally, if you move our camera one inch to one side or the other, you would walk right into the complete zoo of the East Village on a Friday night.
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