When it came time to commission a new pop song for her bittersweet romance Materialists , Celine Song had a simple guideline for prospective songwriters: Make it like John Prine’s “In Spite of Ourselves,” which Song has called “ the most romantic song in the world. ” The duet between Prine and the singer Iris DeMent has been turning up in all kinds of mismatched love stories this year, a remarkable resurgence for a revered songwriter who died in 2020 . It’s in the headphones of the slouchy Brit played by Will Sharpe the morning after he hooks up with Meg Stalter’s frenzied American on Lena Dunham’s Netflix series Too Much , and it’s the anthem that Jennifer Lawrence’s blocked novelist and Robert Pattinson’s absentee dad use to cement their ill-advised marriage in Lynne Ramsay’s

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