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Saturday December 27 8 pm. The Materialist. (cert 15)
Celine Song’s smart, breezy New York City rom-com is a follow up to her smash hit debut, Past Lives, continuing her rumination on contemporary romance:
How do you know when you have found ‘the one’? How do you balance ambition and material necessity against what the heart seems to want? And how do you understand yourself well enough to know whether your heart is a reliable barometer or a mistake waiting to be repeated? Johnson stars as Lucy, a head-screwed-on cynic who makes it her business to handle such questions for her elite clientele – she is a big hitter with a match making agency charging big dollars to seal the matrimonial deal. For Lucy and her peers, successful partnering is an algorithmic formula based on measurable attributes, principal among which are material assets. Yet Lucy herself is perennially single. Until, at a wedding for one of her clients she finds herself charmed by the brother of the groom: Pascale’s insanely rich, handsome, charming – available – Harry. He ticks every box imaginable. But at the same event she runs into an old, still smouldering, flame: Evans’ John – aspiring actor taking catering jobs, perma-broke, still in a crappy flatshare with his slob pals. The choice is obvious – surely?? Knowing, funny, witty and refreshing, this the rom-com updated for today: suspicious of old-school romance but not quite able to escape the hope and allure of the fairy-tale.
