'Materialists,' a Modern Romance Film at the PBS SoCal Cinema Series

A decade ago, when director and writer Celine Song was still a struggling playwright, she was stuck in the defining experience of every New York City artist: finding a day job. It was harder than one would think, and she soon found herself somewhere entirely unexpected. Song couldn’t get hired making coffee as a barista, or scanning items in retail, but she instead became a liaison of people’s most intimate desires and ideals, working as a matchmaker.

Song’s film above all is a piercingly honest examination of the contradictions of modern love and dating, and was partly inspired by her revealing and often entirely confounding experience helping people find their ideal partner.

Immediately following the screening, Deadline’s chief film critic Pete Hammond, who can also be seen on PBS SoCal's Must See Movies, moderates a prerecorded Q&A with Oscar nominated director and writer Celine Song ("Past Lives").