Country: US/FIN
Technical: col 116m
Director: Celine Song
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoë Winters
Synopsis:
A professional matchmaker finds her 'check box' system of assessing potential soulmates rebounds on her personal life, causing her to look differently at her dormant long-term relationship with a struggling actor.
Review:
Song's follow-up to Past Lives charts a similar trajectory, though has a far more marketable take on the 'revivability' of former relationships. It is an elegantly streamlined screenplay, without an ounce of fat, beginning with a prehistoric prologue rather like Luc Besson's Lucy (coincidentally, Johnson's character is also called Lucy), before extrapolating on its implications for our far more complex times. The writer-director's suitably orientalist take is that we have become preoccupied in our society of choice by material concepts of desirable attributes, whereas we should just be open to love when, or if, it happens.
Country: US/FIN
Technical: col 116m
Director: Celine Song
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, Pedro Pascal, Zoë Winters
Synopsis:
A professional matchmaker finds her 'check box' system of assessing potential soulmates rebounds on her personal life, causing her to look differently at her dormant long-term relationship with a struggling actor.
Review:
Song's follow-up to Past Lives charts a similar trajectory, though has a far more marketable take on the 'revivability' of former relationships. It is an elegantly streamlined screenplay, without an ounce of fat, beginning with a prehistoric prologue rather like Luc Besson's Lucy (coincidentally, Johnson's character is also called Lucy), before extrapolating on its implications for our far more complex times. The writer-director's suitably orientalist take is that we have become preoccupied in our society of choice by material concepts of desirable attributes, whereas we should just be open to love when, or if, it happens.
