Film
Materialists Is a Film About Pricing, Not Dating
Celine Song's second feature was sold as a romantic triangle. It is really an argument about what happens to people once you agree to put a number on them.
Lena Ashworth·21 Sep·5 min
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Celine Song's second feature was sold as a romantic triangle. It is really an argument about what happens to people once you agree to put a number on them.
The rom-com was commercially dead for a decade. It returned in 2023-25 and the return was not coincidence. An essay on what the surrounding cinema had become, and why audiences wanted this back.