May Fahmy
Published on: Monday, September 11, 2023 – 5:02 AM | Last updated: Monday, September 11, 2023 – 5:02 AM
The Jesuit Cinema Club screened the American film “Past Lives” by director Celine Song, yesterday, at the Cairo Jesuit Scientific and Cultural Renaissance Society.
In a discussion following the screening of the film, writer and critic Aya Tantawi, supervisor of the Jesuit Cinema Club, said that the American film “past lives” revolves around the idea of fate, which is the idea around which the films of September in the Cinema Club revolve, adding that the heroine of the film is on a journey between her destiny and his lover. The ex-Korean, her Canadian-American husband, and the life she decided to choose. The heroine lives in conflict.
She explained that the film raises the question: Does a person have a choice or a choice in his life? This question is considered one of the levels of reading the film.
She pointed out that there is another level, which is the level of identity, as the heroine of the film is torn between the Korean identity and her desire to return to her roots and the new American life that she chose to live and her belonging to this life, adding that the film is an American production, but its heroes are Korean and Canadian, and it is the first film by the Korean-Canadian director Celine. Song, and the film participated in the official competition of the Berlin Film Festival in 2023.
It is noteworthy that the September films of the Jesuit Cinema Club revolve around fate and its impact, in which we can see the different destinies of characters whose paths of life have crossed and whose preoccupation is with the question of unknown fate.
