Tracking really well to light up this weekend's box office is Celine Song's The Materialists. Fresh off her Academy Award-nominated Past Lives, she's back with a love triangle movie set in the world of matchmaking. Song recently sat down with SlashFilm for an interview, in which she revealed some really interesting things about herself and her process. Let's dive in. - YouTube www.youtube.com As I said above, Past Lives was one of the best movies of 2023, so expectations were high for Song's next movies. But what did she take with her from that experience that translated into this one? Song said she took one main thing away, "Well, honestly, how to make a movie. [laughs] I feel like I did not know how to make a movie making Past Lives, and I feel like Materialists, I walked into it at least having made one movie. It's so holistic. And what that, of course, does is that it allows me to challenge myself more. Because I know more, so I feel like I end up asking more of myself and my team and my crew and my actors too, so I get a little greedy." One of the coolest things about Song is that it seems like she's actually lived a life before becoming a director. Including spending time as an actual matchmaker in this worked. So this story is personal and deals with things she's seen. Song said, "As a matchmaker, I was in a position where I was...
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