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Our guest, Greta Lee, stars in the film Past Lives, our film critic Justin Chiang calls it an exquisitely thoughtful and moving film, and the most affecting love story he's seen in ages.

Although Greta Lee is a member of the Screen Actors Guild, which is currently on strike, past lives received an interim agreement from the Guild, which enables Greta Lee to talk about it.

She talked about past lives, with fresh airs, and re-boldenado. Here's Ann Marie.

It might be easy to see past lives as a film about a love triangle.

In it Nora and Asian American playwright, living in New York City with her white American husband, is visited by her childhood sweetheart, who she hasn't physically seen since she emigrated from soul over 20 years ago.

When that old love, Hey Sung, comes to New York to visit Nora, she finds herself between two men who love different versions of her.

So there is that triangle element, but the movie is so much more. It's about loss and regret, and how the choices you make and the people around you shape your life.

It's also about the lives that you could have lived, and how that fork in the road between what is and what might have been, has more weight when someone emigrates and moves away from their first home.

It's also about reconciling your past self with your current self.

The film, which has continued to be called one of the best of the year by critics, is anchored by our guest, Greta Lee.

She's best known for her comedic roles in TV shows like Girls, Inside Amy Schumer, and her starring role in Russian Doll with Natasha Leon.

She currently stars as TV exec Stella Bach in the third season of the morning show.

Her films include The Comedy Sisters with Tina Fey and Amy Poler, and this year's Spider-Man Into the Spider-Verse.

Let's start with a scene from past lives. Here Nora has just returned from her weighty reunion with her old friend, Hye-sung.

It's clear that he has come to see her in New York because he still has unresolved feelings for her. She talks about it with her husband Arthur, played by John Magaro.

It's so crazy to see him be this grown up man with a normal job and a normal life. He's so Korean.

He still lives with his parents, which is really Korean. I mean, it's all these really Korean views about everything.

And I feel so not Korean when I'm with him, but also in some way more Korean.

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