According to Le Musk “a toxic, enormously intelligent film”.

December is played by a middle-aged woman (Julian Moore), and May by a young man, (Charles Melton). It is a scandalous and illicit relationship between a 36-year-old teacher and his 12-year-old student. We find out after two years. She served a prison sentence, they had three children. An actress arrives (Natalie Portman) who comes to observe the couple to try to best embody the woman in a future film. A duel begins between the two women.

Xavier Lehrpir was overwhelmed and fascinated by the staging work

Journalist for 7th Obsession and cinema columnist France Inter A big admirer of Todd Haynes’s cinema, whose enormous staging he salutes here, and the actresses he describes as outstanding: “It’s an enormously intelligent film, never quite moving fully into the open, always having a vague and vague purpose that I find the screenplay masterfully orchestrated. It’s an absolutely fascinating film on so many levels, and the one that drew me in the most was A mockery of American prudence. This woman was mocked, the subject of a scandal, put in jail, outed, and 15 years later, Hollywood thought she would make a good story.

Charlotte Lipinska likes it

Film criticism for Telematin Joins Xavier Leherpierre on the film’s elegance, beauty and intelligence, and especially on Natalie Portman’s performance: “Besides these two great actresses, I think the way Natalie Portman’s character gradually blends in to interfere with her subject. Her relationship, and How the film gradually shifts to this boy who also has his say. An insidious discomfort Which brings us to the brilliant final confrontation of the two praying mantises.

Ariane Allard also visited him twice

An absolutely brilliant production that I wanted to see a second time, so toxic a film, and whose brilliant staging made me forget to pay enough attention to the boy: “I was overwhelmed by this character, the only one filmed with . Maya. continues to be a viewer and is absolutely overwhelming.”

Pierre Murat is still in love with the cinema of Todd Haynes

A critic of Telerama has always liked the American filmmaker for his very subtle way of defending the singular love that society rejects: “I think he keeps saying that we shouldn’t judge these kinds of extraordinary loves and that “society should judge. is And Natalie Portman’s character is a judge, so she doesn’t understand the beauty, gravity and pain of Julianne Moore’s character.”

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