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What Kind of Movie Will Materialists Be?
A new trailer suggests Celine Song’s latest might be more in line with the mid-aughts romcoms we’ve lost.
Whereas Song’s last film, Past Lives, had a low-key, melancholic sheen, as though we were watching that love triangle play out through fogged-up windows, there’s an unexpectedly light and broad appeal to how Materialists is being marketed. “In the world of matchmaking,” a deep, authoritative voice tells us, “no one plays the game better than Lucy, but love isn’t part of her equation.” The throwback nature of the latest trailer — in tandem with the new character sheets that A24 posted, which describe Evans’s John as “voted for Bernie” and Pascal’s Harry as “old money” — suggests a more playful tone than we’ve seen from Song’s work so far. While the trailer isn’t outrightly funny, the marketing around the film suggests a more light-hearted, if not self-aware, approach to the material.
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