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‘Modern Love’: 'Materialists' Director Celine Song Believes in Love at First Conversation

‘Modern Love’: 'Materialists' Director Celine Song Believes in Love at First Conversation

The Daily vor 1 Jahr

Song and her husband fell for each other the first time they talked. But the Oscar-nominated director says she’s still just as confused as the rest of us when it comes to the mysteries of love.

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The director Celine Song won over audiences and critics alike
with her first feature film, “Past Lives,” the
semi-autobiographical tale of a married Korean American woman
meeting up with her former childhood sweetheart. Now Song is back
with another story about love called “Materialists.” This time
the main character is a matchmaker, a job that Song did briefly
in her early 20s.

On this episode of “Modern Love,” Song reads Louise Rafkin’s
Modern Love essay “My View From the Margins,” about a
relationship columnist who can’t figure out love in her own life.
And Song tells us how neither falling in love at age 24 nor
making a career of writing about love has brought her any closer
to understanding it. “It’s the one thing that makes me feel like
a fool,” Song says.

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