Past Lives

Originally published 16/07/23 on Letterboxd

Can’t help but feel that this is far too considered and dramaturgically suffocating for what it is, and it never quite rids itself of the reek of faux-profound Sundance slop, but this is otherwise a pretty impressive debut feature (even if so much of this screams “debut” in a manner that is often rather embarrassing). Part of the absence of what would usually be my steadfast resistance to the guiles of thuddingly mundane formal asceticism (bleh)- in this case, through the form of a rather literal translation of Robert Frost- stems from the fact that this is another addition to the This Happened to Me canon.