Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song Takes Her ‘Materialists’ Victory Lap: “I’m Able to Be Fearless Because I’m Not Full of Sh**”

Celine Song was waiting for it. The Oscar-nominated filmmaker was in London, a few months after her sophomore feature Materialists had bowed to critical and commercial success in the U.S. — and spurred dozens of thinkpieces about its depictions of modern dating, capitalism, and gender roles (okay, and leg-lengthening surgery). She’d noticed a pattern in…

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#San Sebastian Festival to Screen ‘May December,’ ‘Zone of Interest,’ ‘Past Lives’ in Best-of Sidebar

#San Sebastian Festival to Screen ‘May December,’ ‘Zone of Interest,’ ‘Past Lives’ in Best-of Sidebar

The San Sebastian film festival has again selected top picks of this year’s festival season for its Perlak sidebar, which screens recent, critically-acclaimed movies that have not yet been released in Spain. The 2023 Perlak lineup, unveiled on Friday, includes Celine Song’s Sundance hit Past Lives and Maite Alberdi’s Grand Jury winning documentary The Eternal…

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#‘Past Lives’ Review: Playwright Celine Song Makes a Stunning Move Into Features With This Decades-Spanning Romantic Drama

#‘Past Lives’ Review: Playwright Celine Song Makes a Stunning Move Into Features With This Decades-Spanning Romantic Drama

‘Past Lives’ Review: Playwright Celine Song Makes a Stunning Move Into Features With This Decades-Spanning Romantic Drama Three people sit together at a bar, a man and woman caught up in an animated conversation we can’t hear and another guy looking sad or bored or anxious as he nurses his drink in silence. From across…

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