A24Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal create a starry love triangle in this exquisite new film directed by Celine Song, who made a past life that was previously nominated for an Oscar.
If you’ve seen the Materialist trailer for Celine Song, ignore them. On these previews and on paper, the film looks like a romantic comedy despite its substantial cast. Dakota Johnson is torn apart as a professional matchmaker between his original love (Chris Evans) and a dazzling new possibility (Pedro Pascal). In fact, the film is hardly a rom-com, but it’s far more original and seductive. (Please listen Jane Austen On the connection between a man with a wealth and a wife’s desire. ) The song does not reinvent romcom here. She cleverly avoids it.
Materialist resembles her first film, subtle film Past lifemore than it looks. Like life in the past, in the delicate story of a woman who re-entered New York life, where childhood love from Korea was married to her happiness, the materialist is exquisitely made, character-driven and tells the story. It’s a singular film that the director can do from time to time after a huge success. Past Life has won an Oscar nomination for Best Picture and an original script – and the song makes the most of it.
Lucy’s job as a matchmaker for a high-end client might seem like a tense device, song She had the job temporarily before she broke through as a playwright or filmmaker. And Lucy is very good at her job, as seen when cajoles a reluctant bride (Luisa Jacobson) on her wedding day to experience the wedding. From there, the plot follows the rotatable ROMCOM and sets the selection. At that wedding, Lucy meets the groom’s rich and handsome brother Henry (Pascal), and is served a drink for John (Evans), whom he parted five years later. A quick flashback shows they’ve broken on the money. Eating dinner from the 5th anniversary food cart was not what Lucy wanted. As always, the song creates a wonderful textured background and occurs on busy New York Street, filled with traffic on busy New York Street.
In Lucy’s new life, her unnegotiable demands are for her wealthy husband. “Marriage was a business agreement and it was always the case,” she says. It may have come across as harsh and cynical, but Johnson’s smooth performance makes Lucy seem refreshingly honest to herself about the life she wants.
Pascal makes Henry completely attractive, and proposes a layer of vulnerability under that appeal. He has very little chemistry with Johnson. Whether it is intentional or not is because their character bonds are based on a common sense that money and lifestyle matter. “If you get your first $400 haircut, you can’t go back to the supercut,” says Henry. However, the song is too clever to make Lucy’s decisions easier or more obvious. Henry doesn’t just check every box for her. He actually listens to her and they may really fall in love. Maybe she can have love and money.
Johnson has Evans and chemistry. Evans reveals that John at first glance is a woman whom he will never overcome. They have some nice and soft moments together. Why recycle a past that didn’t work?
Materialist
cast: Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans
The song takes comedy from Lucy’s clients and an impossible checklist of requests for peers, from male height and hair to female age and fitness. Johnson is sure that Lucy almost believes when she says, “I promise to marry the love of your life.” When she finally snaps in anger at one of them, she, of course, ironically, can offer them the perfect match “because I’m Dr. Frankenstein.” But there is also drama when another Lucy client has a date to become violent. It’s a twist you’ve never seen on a standard subtle rom-com, and it’s a sign of how many songs are determined to piece together the film into reality.
Towards the end, Lucy dances at yet another wedding ceremony with one of the old standard recruiters, all of the old standard, the most materialistic love song ever, with the lyrics “I can give you only love that lasts forever.” It’s the perfect song for a movie that questions whether that kind of love is real or not.
From that ironic beginning, materialists have come a long way, and it is clearly on the way to a hopeful ending. This provides the romanticism that earned blinkered that fits this moment, and Bolsterstars the song’s reputation as one of the most keen observers of the relationship.
The materialist will be released in US cinemas on June 13th and in UK cinemas on August 15th.
