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‘Materialists’ Filmmaker Celine Song Knows Something About Love – Crew Call Podcast
The best romantic comedies in and of themselves become timeless Bibles of life. Woody Allen’s Annie Hall didn’t just speak to the 1970s single folk but also to any teenager in a future era going through heartbreak. Ditto for 2009’s 500 Days of Summer: It may have been about millennials and for millennials, but carried […]
Woody Allen’s Annie Hall didn’t just speak to the 1970s single folk but also to any teenager in a future era going through heartbreak. And, so, we arrive at Celine Song ‘s Materialists which is a deconstruction of the singledom that’s absolutely now, steeped in its social media marketability and posh wants, but at the end of the day it’s the raw, shabby, sincere form of love which wins out. In turning the romcom on its head (though Jane Austen’s Emma does come to mind), Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, a high-end matchmaker in NYC who contends with her clients lofty wants in a mate.
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