• Todd Haynes: May December, 2023

  • Todd Haynes: May December, 2023

  • Todd Haynes: May December, 2023

  • Todd Haynes: Image Book, 2023

  • Todd Haynes: Image Book, 2023

May December

featuring

Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, Cory Michael Smith,

An unsettling power play of shifting perspectives, reflections, and performances based on Samy Burch’s Academy Award–nominated screenplay, May December chronicles the encounter between ambitious actor Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) and Gracie (Julianne Moore), the woman she is preparing to portray. A suburban homemaker, Gracie is married to Joe (Charles Melton), who was a boy of just thirteen when their scandalous relationship made tabloid news and landed her in prison. As the couple prepares to send their youngest children to college, Elizabeth interviews their friends and neighbors and spends time with the family, but the closer she gets to her subject, the more elusive Gracie proves to be.

Kate MacKay
FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Samy Burch
Based On
  • a story by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik

Cinematographer
  • Christopher Blauvelt
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 117 mins
Source
  • Netflix
Followed By

Image Book

Todd Haynes, United States, 2023

Dedicated to and titled after a film by Jean-Luc Godard, Haynes’s short, commissioned for the Centre Pompidou series Où en êtes-vous? (What stage are you at?), is a fascinating catalogue of references and inspirations for May December.

FILM DETAILS 
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 17 mins
source
  • Centre Pompidou

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