Past Lives (2023)

Children Na Young and Hae Sung are good friends in South Korea. Just before Na's family emigrates Canada, her mother arranges a "date" for them so that her daughter will have a happy memory of their time together. Decades later, when Na (now Nora) is working toward being a playwright in New York, they find each other online and renew their friendship over months of video chats.

"What if" stories are nothing new, but this film's final section does elevate it and I did spill some tears. I couldn't help feeling, however, that those tears were manipulated out of me by a particularly effective mini-flashback. 

B+