Past Lives Movie Soundtrack
Past Lives | |
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| Movie Soundtrack (2023) | |
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| Director | Celine Song |
| Studio | A24 / CJ ENM / Killer Films |
| Release date | 2023-06-02 |
| Genre(s) | Drama, Romance |
| Composer(s) | Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen |
| Music supervisor | Meghan Currier |
| Score album | Past Lives (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) |
| Record label | A24 Music |
| Available on | Paramount+, Apple TV+, Prime Video |
| Cast | Greta Lee as Nora Moon Teo Yoo as Hae Sung John Magaro as Arthur Moon Seung-ah as Young Nora Leem Seung-min as Young Hae Sung Ji Hye Yoon as Nora's Mom ... e 1 more |
About This Soundtrack
Written and directed by Celine Song, A24's 2023 romantic drama Past Lives stands as one of the most emotionally resonant films of the decade. Starring Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro, the story follows childhood sweethearts separated by international emigration who reunite in New York twenty-four years later to contemplate fate, love, and what could have been. The film earned widespread critical acclaim, securing Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
The soundtrack for Past Lives is a masterclass in emotional subtlety, curated under the musical supervision of Meghan Currier. Multi-instrumentalists Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen (of indie rock titans Grizzly Bear) composed a delicate original score that uses felted pianos, tape loops, acoustic textures, and ambient synthesizers to mirror the concept of In-Yun (인연). Complementing the score is Sharon Van Etten's custom end credits song 'Quiet Eyes', alongside vintage needle drops from Leonard Cohen ('Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye'), Kim Kwang Seok, Them featuring Van Morrison ('Don't Look Back'), and John Cale.
This webpage serves as the complete soundtrack directory for Past Lives (Vidas Passadas). Explore every licensed song, chronological scene descriptions, exact timestamps, and all original score cues by Christopher Bear & Daniel Rossen, complete with active streaming links for Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon alongside audio previews.
Additional Songs
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TIMESTAMP00:03:00Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye by Leonard Cohen
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TIMESTAMP00:09:00It's Not Love If It Hurts Too Much (너무 아픈 사랑은 사랑이 아니었음을) by Kim Kwang Seok
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Nice by 5Alarm Music
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Blazes Away by Paul Eakins
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Officer of the Day March by Paul Eakins
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TIMESTAMP01:21:00Don't Look Back by Them, Van Morrison
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TIMESTAMP01:29:00You Know More Than I Know by John Cale
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TIMESTAMP01:40:00Quiet Eyes by Sharon Van Etten, Zachary Dawes, Jay Bellerose, Benji Lysaght, Davey Chegwidden, Owen Pallett, Mike Olsen
Original Score
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DURATION1:20If You Leave Something Behind by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION1:28Crossing by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION1:06You Gain Something Too by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION1:17Do You Remember me by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:24I Remember You by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION4:32Across The Ocean by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:03Crossing II by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:18In Yun by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION1:38We Live Here by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:54Why Are You Going to New York by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION3:18Staring at a Ghost by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:33Bedroom by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:22An Immigrant and a Tourist by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION2:58Eight Thousand Layers by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
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DURATION4:05See You by Christopher Bear, Daniel Rossen
About the Composer(s)
Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen are acclaimed American composers and multi-instrumentalists best known as key members and songwriters of the influential Brooklyn indie-rock group Grizzly Bear. For Celine Song's Oscar-nominated romantic drama Past Lives (2023), Bear and Rossen joined forces to create an intimate, understated musical landscape blending warm analog synthesizers, delicate piano figures, woodwinds, and acoustic guitars. Their score eschews melodrama, instead emphasizing quiet space, melancholic reflection, and the invisible threads of fate that connect Nora and Hae Sung across decades and continents.
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- Grizzly Bear Collaboration: Past Lives marks the first major feature film scoring collaboration between Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen, both longstanding multi-instrumentalists in the acclaimed indie band Grizzly Bear.
- Quiet Eyes for the Oscars: Sharon Van Etten's haunting ballad 'Quiet Eyes', co-written with Zachary Dawes specifically for the film's closing sequence, was shortlisted for Best Original Song across international film awards.
- Cultural Resonance of In-Yun: The score's central theme 'In Yun' encapsulates the traditional Korean spiritual philosophy that even brushing shoulders with someone on the street requires eight thousand layers of providence across past incarnations.
- Carefully Placed Needle Drops: Music supervisor Meghan Currier and director Celine Song selected Leonard Cohen's 'Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye' to bridge the bittersweet transition between young Na Young and Hae Sung before her flight to Canada.
- A24 Music Vinyl Release: A24 Music issued the 16-track score on limited-edition vinyl, featuring custom artwork and handwritten notes reflecting on the concept of fate and memory.
Official Trailer
About the Movie
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends in Seoul, South Korea, are torn apart when Nora's family emigrates to Toronto. A dozen years later, in their early twenties, they reconnect across the internet, sharing late-night video calls that rekindle an unspoken affection, yet geography and differing life paths pull them apart once again.
Another twelve years pass. Nora (Greta Lee) is now a successful playwright living in New York City, happily married to Arthur (John Magaro). Hae Sung (Teo Yoo) arrives in Manhattan for a brief vacation, prompting an emotionally momentous reunion across one fateful week. Together, they confront questions of destiny, love, the roads not taken, and the Korean concept of In-Yun (인연)—the spiritual belief that encounters between individuals are predestined across thousands of past lives.
Written and directed by Celine Song in her extraordinary feature directorial debut, Past Lives earned widespread critical acclaim, culminating in Academy Award nominations for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. Produced by A24 and CJ ENM, the romantic drama is elevated by a tender, evocative score by Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen alongside music supervision by Meghan Currier.
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