‘Modern Love’: 'Materialists' Director Celine Song Believes in Love at First Conversation
The Daily
The New York Times
4.4 • 102.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2025
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Love now and... |
| 0:03.3 | Love, but stronger than anything... |
| 0:07.0 | For the love... |
| 0:08.0 | And I love you more than anything. |
| 0:10.5 | Body love! |
| 0:11.3 | There's to love. |
| 0:13.4 | From the New York Times, I'm Anna Martin. |
| 0:15.9 | This is Modern Love. |
| 0:19.9 | Today, I'm talking to director and writer Celine's song. I got to say, |
| 0:27.0 | Celine can write a love story. I've watched her first movie, past lives four different times, |
| 0:33.6 | which means I cried watching past lives four different times. |
| 0:37.7 | And I'm not alone in feeling so moved by it. |
| 0:41.0 | Past Lives was nominated for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. |
| 0:45.5 | It's a story about a woman named Nora, |
| 0:48.2 | who is happily married when she reconnects with her childhood sweetheart, |
| 0:52.4 | who she hasn't seen since she emigrated from Korea as a kid. |
| 0:55.6 | And when he comes to visit her in New York, |
| 0:58.2 | Nora finds herself torn between her past, her present, and her future. |
| 1:05.5 | Is he attractive? |
| 1:08.7 | I think so. |
| 1:15.6 | He's really masculine in this way that I think is so Korean. Are you attracted to him? |
| 1:20.6 | I don't think so. |
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