May December (2023)
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
Synopsis:
An actress spends time with a family whose controversial history is soon to be the focus of a film she is making. Her prying in the name of authenticity soon becomes a burden, triggering fault lines in the central relationship that may just be aftershocks from the actress's own crumbling sense of self.
Review:
Psychological drama which could have gone all Aronofsky on us, but doesn't thankfully. The packaging, down to the adapted Michel Legrand score from The Go-Between, is trademark Haynes, and the actresses have a ball, but in its flirtation with, and apparent justification of, taboo sexual material one wonders what it is driving at. The finale, in which Portman first delivers a soliloquy reading of a letter, sporting a lambdacism the Moore character does not even have, and then insists on a fourth take of an already cheesily erotic seduction scene, goes a step too far; but up to then the film maintains its grip pretty well.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
Synopsis:
An actress spends time with a family whose controversial history is soon to be the focus of a film she is making. Her prying in the name of authenticity soon becomes a burden, triggering fault lines in the central relationship that may just be aftershocks from the actress's own crumbling sense of self.
Review:
Psychological drama which could have gone all Aronofsky on us, but doesn't thankfully. The packaging, down to the adapted Michel Legrand score from The Go-Between, is trademark Haynes, and the actresses have a ball, but in its flirtation with, and apparent justification of, taboo sexual material one wonders what it is driving at. The finale, in which Portman first delivers a soliloquy reading of a letter, sporting a lambdacism the Moore character does not even have, and then insists on a fourth take of an already cheesily erotic seduction scene, goes a step too far; but up to then the film maintains its grip pretty well.
Country: US
Technical: col 117m
Director: Todd Haynes
Cast: Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
Synopsis:
An actress spends time with a family whose controversial history is soon to be the focus of a film she is making. Her prying in the name of authenticity soon becomes a burden, triggering fault lines in the central relationship that may just be aftershocks from the actress's own crumbling sense of self.
Review:
Psychological drama which could have gone all Aronofsky on us, but doesn't thankfully. The packaging, down to the adapted Michel Legrand score from The Go-Between, is trademark Haynes, and the actresses have a ball, but in its flirtation with, and apparent justification of, taboo sexual material one wonders what it is driving at. The finale, in which Portman first delivers a soliloquy reading of a letter, sporting a lambdacism the Moore character does not even have, and then insists on a fourth take of an already cheesily erotic seduction scene, goes a step too far; but up to then the film maintains its grip pretty well.