Materialists | First Look - video Dailymotion

A young, ambitious New York City matchmaker finds herself torn between the perfect match and her imperfect ex.

Transcript

00:00You're the matchmaker.

00:01What are you doing at the singles table?

00:03Dance with me.

00:05The genre of romance, it's very easy to dismiss it as girl shit.

00:09But the truth is that love affects all of us.

00:13Materialis is a love story.

00:15It's about Lucy, who is a very good matchmaker.

00:18She just wants people to find love.

00:21Hey, are you single?

00:22Give me a call if you want to meet somebody.

00:24But she's pretty shut off to it herself.

00:26Lucy M, the eternal bachelorette.

00:29I'm going to die alone.

00:30Back in 2016, I worked as a matchmaker.

00:32When I would talk to people about what they're looking for,

00:35they would talk to me in numbers.

00:36Nothing over 20 people.

00:38Someone 27, 28.

00:39There's a funny contradiction between the way we talk about dating as a value system

00:44and how I know love works.

00:46You're not going to marry him, are you?

00:48Why not?

00:50This story explores that pull between what your head says and what your heart says.

00:55Lucy, being the pragmatist that she is, has to weigh those concerns.

00:59I comfort my stability.

01:01Celine subverts the genre of romantic comedy and she captures these whole characters that we can all relate to.

01:08Celine has brought back this magic and nuance to rom-coms.

01:14It's so well written that it feels delicious.

01:16I'm always trying to make a movie that I want to watch.

01:19And to me, Materialist is made for the audience in 2025.

01:23To talk about love and the way that it exists today is completely worthy of cinema.

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