‘Materialists' Filmmaker Celine Song Knows Something About Love
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.
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Ditto for 2009's 500 Days of Summer: It may have been about millennials and for millennials, but carried themes about the pursuit of love that any fortysomething could relate to.
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. Lucy, who knows everything there is about marketability in the game of courtship, falls for the ultimate unicorn in Pedro Pascal's ultimate rich dude, Harry. But then Lucy's ex, John (an amazing, no-holds-barred Chris Evans) reenters the picture. He doesn't have Harry's wallet, but, man, he knows what makes Lucy tick (beer and soda).
Before she was an Oscar nominated filmmaker, Song was a matchmaker ten years ago.
'I learned more about people in those six months, than in any other part of my life,' she tells us today on Crew Call.
Though she doesn't consider herself an expert on love, you can't deny her knowledge. Move over, Leo Buscaglia.
'Love is a completely mysterious thing that we don't have a solution for,' says Song about the difference between dating and finding the love of your life.
'Love is something that humbles us, that ask us to surrender, it's the one that asks us to be our purist, most simple self,' Song shares, 'When love is offered to you, all you can say is 'Deal'. You can say 'Yes, deal. I want this love in my life.'
Materialists opens this Friday.
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