Materialists Director Responds to 'Broke Man Propaganda' Claims: It's Quite Distressing...
Materialists director, Celine Song, talks yearning and the power of love while sharing some of the films that shaped her second feature, from Phantom Thread to Emma. to Yi Yi šĀ Watch the full interview at the link in bio.
Materialists is out now worldwide.
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letterboxdinstagram.comāPeople call romantic films āchick flicksā as a way to diminish them, which I find unspeakably sad, not just for the way it excludes āchicksā from the realm of āserious people,ā but also for the way it excludes āserious peopleā from the realm of romance and love.
Dakota Johnson and director Celine Song rethink the rom-com with 'Materialists'
and focuses only on the needs of a narrow subset of already privileged women; a version of feminism that is toothless and apolitical and fails to challenge the injustice of existing power structures, aiming only to insert women at the top of them. This type of feminism, commonly referred to as neoliberal feminism, tends to overlook the aspects of
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