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‘Materialists’ Review: Celine Song’s Follow-Up to ‘Past Lives’ Is a Rom-Com Played Straight, With Dakota Johnson as a Matchmaker Tangled Up in Love and Money
Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal are the suitors in a romance for the age of perfectionism that's like 'Sex and the City' directed by Eric Rohmer.
It’s the second feature written and directed by Celine Song, who made the wistfully sublime “Past Lives,” and it stars Dakota Johnson as a stylishly crisp, take-charge professional matchmaker and Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal as the men she winds up caught between. The film is set in the elite but real New York society of people searching for mates who truly have it all: the looks, the personality, the good taste, the height (that’s a major one), the better-than-mid-range six-figure income. Underneath it all, the film recognizes, without ever quite coming out and saying it, that in the new gilded age of aspiration, with all the money increasingly concentrated at the top, “romance,” for too many people, is becoming a contest to enter the upper strata.
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