In writer-director Celine Song’s tender triptych Past Lives, set during three segments 12 years apart, time is a wily and unpredictable mistress. Sometimes it goes by in a blip: a simple cut and some onscreen text informing us, in the eternal present tense, “12 years pass.” Then, when the two protagonists, childhood friends finally uniting in adulthood, see one another for … [Read more...]