Materialists

In 2023, Korean-Canadian director Celine Song captured the hearts of many film lovers with her engaging, self-written feature debut Past Lives, in which a Korean woman who moved to New York and is now married receives a visit from her former Korean childhood sweetheart. It earned Song dozens of awards and two Oscar nominations. In the romantic comedy Materialists, her second and also self-written film, everything again revolves around a love triangle between a woman and two men. Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal play the lead roles.

New York-based Lucy (Johnson) is a professional matchmaker, someone who, for a fee of course, looks for a suitable love partner for you. She is successful in her work, she has brought many people together, but she herself is single. Or is she? She ends up in a complicated love triangle with the seemingly perfect match Harry (Pascal) and her far from perfect ex John (Evans). Choosing turns out to be far from easy...