Christopher Bear and Daniel Rossen did the score for A24 Celine Strong directorial debut “Past Lives”.

TRACKLIST:
1. If You Leave Something Behind
2. Crossing
3. You Gain Something Too
4. Do You Remember Me
5. I Remember You
6. Across The Ocean
7. Crossing II
8. In Yun
9. We Live Here
10. Why Are You Going To New York
11. Staring at a Ghost
12. Bedroom
13. An Immigrant and a Tourist
14. Eight Thousand Layers
15. See You
16. Quiet Eyes – Sharon Van Etten

The synopsis for the film reads like this: “Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.”

Bear shared this about it: “What a pleasure it was to score this film with Rossen and make music I feel very connected with. It still is a little bit of a mystery how it all came together. In the end, we had started developing those thoughts and where those themes would reappear into a color-coded graph where we’d say, ‘these three things are related because they’re telling this story. And then there’d be certain cues mainly focused on one of the themes in the film but maybe more of a theme related to Nora (Lee) and Arthur’s (Magaro) relationship, but then also still leaving in hints from her childhood relationship. We’d figure out interesting ways of intermingling those while simultaneously trying to do that so it’s not overbearing or bonking over the head…to let the viewer have their own feeling and have their own emotional interaction.”

Rossen shared this: “Grizzly Bear’s music was licensed in the past for films, but we’d never scored anything together, that’s for sure. It’s been a while since we had worked on anything together so it was an exploratory thing to see what that would mean for both of us, given our separate studio setups for me in Santa Fe and Chris in LA. I felt like it was a bit of a rediscovery process for us too, figuring out the scoring.”