What is it about?
To prepare for her new role, a famous actress comes to meet the woman she will play on screen, whose love life ignited the tabloid press and excited the nation 20 years ago.
Films in competition at the last Cannes Film Festival continue to hit cinemas. While waiting for The Zone of Interest by Jonathan Glazer (Cannes Grand Prix 2023, on display next Wednesday), here is May December, a new production by Todd Haynes, regularly selected at Cannes, and to whom we owe a significant debt, along with Cate Blanchett and Carroll. are Rooney Mara.
3 good reasons to get away by May December!
Like Carol, May December is a great film for actresses, which excites its actors and this is the first good reason to distance yourself from this film.
A charming pair of actresses
Todd Haynes is directing Julianne Moore for the fifth time after Safe, Far From Heaven, I’m Not There and The Museum of Wonder. This is his favorite actress, with whom he has formed a unique collaboration, offering her some of his most notable roles. For Natalie Portman, however, it’s a first in the filmmaker’s world. The Julianne Moore – Natalie Portman tandem shines.
A disturbing sight
May December’s story is haunting and captivating. It is inspired by real events, an adaptation of a case that caused much ink to flow in the United States. The story of Mary Kay Letourneau (now deceased), a wife, mother and teacher, who falls in love with one of her fifth grade students.
The screenplay, created not by Todd Haynes but by casting director Sammy Burch, who signs her first feature film screenplay here, deals with the romance quite liberally, as one of the film’s virtues is that it has several Levels must be interspersed, many levels in this subversive and ambiguous plot. May December is a very rich, very dense film, with many layers of reading, and which often tries to mix very daring styles, even leaning towards what we call “camp”, which translates into French. Very difficult, but which means a form of humor, a conscious change.
3 / Find the work of Todd Haynes
May with December, Todd Haynes Directing his 10th feature film (including a documentary on The Velvet Underground). A filmmaker with an exciting body of work, who specializes in making his actresses stand out and his latest film is no exception to this rule.
May December is full of staging ideas and a very singular and mysterious atmosphere emerges, accentuated by its catchy music, a re-orchestration of the original soundtrack from the film Le Messager (which we also know as the theme song for the show in France). Bring in the accused!). If you are not familiar with the films of Todd Haynes, we invite you to find the above video, or to go even further, study the book Center Pompidou, written by Judith Revault-de’Allons, recently published by American Chimeras. Amelie Street.
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