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PAST LIVES 12A

OUT 8 SEPTEMBER CINEMAS

Films should be voyeuristic,’ Mike Leigh once opined. ‘What else is a film if you’re not snooping into somebody else’s lives?’ ’ opening gambit makes the audience party to some unbridled people-watching unfolding in a New York bar. These unseen eavesdroppers are fascinated by the three’s-company dynamic of a trio of drinkers: an Asian woman, an Asian man and a white guy. From across the room they try to unpick the structure of the group. Who knows who? Who, if anyone, is

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