From the outside, you’d be excused for thinking Celine Song’s debut film might be a memoir of sorts. Like Nora, the lead character, Song left South Korea for Canada as a young girl. Like Nora, she also has two successful artists for parents, an illustrator and filmmaker, and moved to New York to pursue a career as a writer.
And just like the opening scene of her film, Song also once found herself sitting between her husband, who is white, and childhood sweetheart, who is Korean, in a bar in the East Village. She was translating for each of them, two
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