Celine Song, the visionary behind the gutting Past Lives, is back with another love triangle for A24.
Materialists, a follow-up to the writer-director’s 2023 directorial debut starring Greta Lee, centers on Dakota Johnson‘s Lucy, an ambitious young matchmaker in New York who, it seems, is quite good at her job. “How many marriages are you responsible for, Lucy?” asks a pal in the trailer unveiled by A24 on Tuesday. Nine, thank you very much.
But it appears her skills are inept when it comes to figuring out her own love life, as Lucy finds herself torn between the perfect match (played by Pedro Pascal) and her imperfect ex (Chris Evans), whom she reconnects with at the same time that she meets Pascal’s dashing suitor.
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“You are what we call a unicorn, an impossible fantasy,” she says to Pascal’s rich, handsome bachelor.
Glimpses of the unrequited longing prevalent in Song’s first feature punctuate the trailer via a lovelorn Evans, leaving Johnson’s leading lady uncertain of how her love story will play out. “I don’t think I’m very good at my job anymore,” she laments.
Song wrote and directed the film, which hits theaters on June 13. She also produced alongside her Past Lives collaborators David Hinojosa, Christine Vachon, and Pamela Koffler. The trailer features a new original song by the indie pop band Japanese Breakfast, fronted by Michelle Zauner.
Though Materialists has a similar love triangle throughline to Song’s first feature, Vachon previously teased to GQ that the upcoming film is nothing like Past Lives: “It feels like she makes a different movie every time, that she’s going to be the kind of a filmmaker who doesn’t make the same movie twice.”
Watch the trailer for Materialists above.