Remi Chauveau Notes
Materialists is a stylish, emotionally charged exploration of modern love in Manhattan, where Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal navigate a glittering maze of desire, status, and heartbreak under Celine Song’s razor-sharp direction. 💔🗽💅
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💔💸✨ “Materialists”: Love’s Currency in the City That Never Sleeps

23 July 2025
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💋 Step Into the Velvet Jungle Cue the beat.

Material Girl hums through the speakers like a flirtatious wink across a crowded rooftop bar. You’re not just entering a film—you’re entering a mood. In Materialists, love wears heels, ambition wears cologne, and heartbreak hides behind curated playlists and perfect lighting.

This isn’t romance as you knew it. It’s romance reimagined—sharp, seductive, and stitched with longing. Celine Song doesn’t ask if you’re ready. She assumes you are.

So grab your emotional receipts, slip into something unapologetically stylish, and let’s fall in love with the idea of falling in love.

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Celine Song pivots from the wistful intimacy of Past Lives to the brisk, bruised beauty of Manhattan's dating jungle.

With Materialists, she doesn’t just stage romance—she dissects it.

The narrative unfolds like a designer handbag slowly emptied: revealing hopes, heartbreaks, and receipts of emotional debt.

💃 The Matchmaker at the Center

Dakota Johnson delivers an achingly poised performance as a high-end matchmaker juggling the demands of her clients and her own tangled desires. Her character, effortlessly stylish yet emotionally raw, finds herself triangulated between comfort and temptation.

💔 The Triangle of Truth

Chris Evans plays her ex with scruffy sincerity—charming in a “he still hasn’t changed his ringtone” kind of way. Pedro Pascal glides in as the impeccable suitor with “red flag in a silk tie” energy. The tension between real affection and aspirational love pulses in every scene.

🗽 The City as a Character

Shot with a mix of moody elegance and street-level grit, New York itself becomes a fourth lead. Rooftops, taxis, gallery openings—it’s a portrait of modern love adorned with ambient loneliness. This is the kind of film that makes you want to text your ex, then delete it before hitting send.

🎭 Emotional Wealth vs. Emotional Debt

Materialists asks: are we choosing partners, or brands? Song uses her sharpest cinematic scalpel to tease apart what we truly value when it comes to connection, status, and sacrifice. Romance here is transactional—until it’s not.

🔚 Final Word

Materialists sparkles like champagne and stings like the morning after. With Song at the helm, it’s another masterclass in the poetry of longing.

#LoveInTranslation 💔 #EmotionalCurrency 💸 #CelineSongCinema ✨ #NYCLoveTriangle 🗽 #HeartVsStatus 🎭

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Materialists Was Inspired by Celine Song’s Real-Life Job Application
Before she became an acclaimed filmmaker, Celine Song actually applied to be a matchmaker in New York City after meeting one at a party. She didn’t have the typical side gigs like barista or retail work, so she pursued this unconventional path—and that experience directly inspired the character of Lucy in Materialists. The film’s premise isn’t just a clever metaphor—it’s rooted in Song’s own brush with the world of elite matchmaking. This real-life connection explains the film’s sharp authenticity in portraying the transactional nature of modern romance. Lucy’s motto, “Upward and onward,” and her view of dating as a business negotiation come straight from the emotional contradictions Song observed in that world.

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