Before Past Lives director Celine Song was an Oscar nominee, she was a struggling playwright in New York who needed to pay rent. So, for about six months, she worked for a matchmaking company, trying to help singles find life partners in the city’s gruelling dating arena.
The then late-twentysomething met people she didn’t normally encounter in her artistic life (financiers, doctors, lawyers) and asked them what they were looking for in a partner. They were frank, trading old-fashioned ideas of romance for cold, hard statistics.
