Andrew H. Miller: “Past Lives” is a movie that’s full of regret and full of relief, some jealousy, some envy. But the dominant feeling for me is this heartbreaking beauty. How does beauty matter? What ...

The Korean-born playwright demonstrates a way with words, but also with the deep wells of emotion that can flow between them, in this exceptional feature debut. Song, who was born in South Korea, ...

Her debut feature film after a career as a playwright, “Past Lives” is a perfect movie, one of the best of the 21st century (so far), a tearjerker that earns every sob. Song wrote and directed it (she ...

In her first time out, Song crafted a lyrical work of art out of her own life as a 12-year-old girl who leaves her family home and her boy crush Hae Sung in South Korea to grow up in Canada. The ...

Dakota Johnson is the star of Materialists, and she plays a matchmaker who must choose between two romantic prospects: An ex and a new match who could be her ticket to lifelong blissful romance. Chris ...

When Celine Song wrote the script for her debut feature film, “Past Lives,” she was inspired by a conversation she had at a New York bar with her husband and her childhood sweetheart, who was visiting ...

The career path of Celine Song, SoA ’14, hasn’t been linear. Song is known primarily for her work writing and directing the beloved Oscar-nominated film “Past Lives”; but before Song got her start in ...

Celine Song’s Materialists interrogates the enduring role of wealth in courtship. Correspondent A decade ago, before Celine Song scored two Oscar nominations for her debut film, Past Lives, she was a ...

Back in the day, you would have been hard-pressed to find a bigger fan of “Sex and the City” than I was. Yet even as I think it’s a deliriously great show, a part of me — the movie critic side — has ...