‘Materialists’ Review: Celine Song Crafts A Soulful Drama About The Romantic Capital Of Being Valued
In the modern world of love, where our value as people has greatly diminished thanks to a swipe left, swipe right culture that can inadvertently encourage the nature of our disposability, love, relationships and sex can become an intensely transactional, self-centered endeavor that doesn’t foster togetherness. What does your worth offer me? What value do you hold? What boxes do you check off that can enhance my already rich and wonderful life? Even if they’re far and away from the world of dating apps, these notions are thoughtfully explored in Celine Song’s “Materialists,” her follow-up to her achingly melancholy Academy Award-nominated romantic drama, “Past Lives.”
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A reprise of the same genre, with a slightly more commercial, upscale bent, anything you read that calls “Materialists” a romantic comedy ultimately does the film and the reader a disservice.
