Tag: Celine Song
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Materialists: “Hearts for Hire”
Celine Song’s Materialists is a satire trimmed in rose-gold sincerity, a glass of chilled Prosecco served with a wink and a dash of resignation. The film waltzes through the lives of people who treat intimacy as both investment strategy and spiritual wager, managing to feel both featherlight and faintly tragic. Dakota Johnson, exuding a kind…
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Past Lives: Life Won and Lost 8,000 Times
Summary via Rotten Tomatoes: Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.…