The first time my husband and I saw "Past Lives" in the theater, we knew afterward we couldn't go home.

We needed a drink. We needed to talk about what we just saw, what we just heard.

Knowing each other as Bob and I do after three decades of marriage, we had expected to be moved by an intimate yet universal movie. What we didn't expect was that as we discussed "Past Lives" in a crowded bar, we couldn't help but cry. Not just a swelling of the throat and wiping a tear or two – full on ugly cry, trying to form words despite broken-voices crying. What must people have thought was happening?

Which is precisely how "Past Lives" opens: The camera approaches a woman sitting between two men at a bar. You hear a voice asking, "Who do you think they are to each other?"

Then the movie takes you back 24 years to Seoul, South Korea. When the film returns at the end to New York City and the present, you now know who these three people are to each other in this life. What happened in between is a lot of "in-yun," a Korean term for fate – perhaps 8,000 layers of connections from their past lives.

And Monday, when the nominees for the Golden Globe Awards are announced, who knows where in-yun might lead the movie's writer-director, Celine Song, and her three main actors, Greta Lee, Teo Yoo and John Magaro?

Song's breathtaking directorial debut, a breakout at the Sundance Film........

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