Interview With "Past Lives" Director/Writer Celine Song

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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"Past Lives" had its world premiere at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and has had one of the most fascinating trajectories for an awards season contender since then, screening again at the Berlin Film Festival, releasing over the summer, then watching director and writer Celine Song win a ton of prizes for her first film. The warm embrace from critics, audiences, and the industry for the film has led to two Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay for Song. She was kind enough to spend some time talking with us before her win at the Director's Guild Of America for Best First Feature Film about her awards season journey, crafting the screenplay, what went into that final breathtaking jump cut in the film's climatic scene, and more! Please be sure to check out the film, which is up for your consideration at this year's Academy Awards and is now available to stream on Paramount+ & Showtime from A24. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You were listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is our interview with the writer and director for past lives, Celine Song.
0:08.8	There is a word in Korean, enion. It means providence or fate.
0:17.7	Do you believe in that?
0:19.4	That's just something Koreans say to seduce someone.
0:23.2	Hi, Ma, how are you?
0:24.7	Hi, Celine. How are you?
0:26.6	I'm good, I'm good.
0:28.0	It's that time of year.
0:29.7	Running into you. I love learning into all these things.
0:32.9	Yeah, no, absolutely. It's always been a constant joy throughout this award season. Anytime I bump into you.
0:38.5	Oh, it's just so nice. I'm just like, hi, Matt. So fabulous. Love it whenever you come say hi.
0:44.7	Yeah. Well, I mean, your film has had such a profound impact on me and so many other people that, I don't know, it almost feels like in a weird but nice sort of way.
0:55.4	Like, I'm in debt to you to just say thank you for the rest of your life.
1:02.4	Wait, that means so much.
1:03.8	That is the nicest thing.
1:05.1	That is the nicest.
1:06.7	So good.
1:07.9	Well, let me ask you to this, because you are going through what very few people go through
1:14.3	during award season where it's a full year cycle, more than a year. Your film premiered at Sundance
1:20.4	over a year ago at this point. So you've had to be on the campaign trail through the film's theatrical release, through various film festivals.
1:30.9	You were in Berlin last year with this movie.
1:33.0	I mean, how has the journey been for your first film to kind of go through so many different events, award shows?
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