Following her impressive debut Past Lives, Celine Song returns with Materialists, a quirky film that examines love through the lens of matchmakers, dating apps and the desire for certainty. 

Lucy (Dakota Johnson) earns her living as a successful matchmaker for wealthy singles, but she herself is caught between a failed relationship with theatre actor John (Chris Evans) and the temptation of the fabulously wealthy charmer Harry (Pedro Pascal). What begins as a light-hearted romcom unfolds into a sharp reflection on the malleability of relationships. 

Materialists explores how far you can go in planning, filtering and controlling love – and whether certainty and predictability can ever outweigh that one elusive spark. A fascinating deconstruction of the illusion that feelings can be manufactured.