May December is a fictionalised look at a shocking, much-talked-about true story.
Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.
It’s an unacknowledged duel between two women, played by Moore and Portman, who have found a potent “frenmity” at an important stage in each of their lives.
Dir: Todd Haynes
2023 USA 113’
Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton
'It has a plot that could come straight from a prurient TV soap opera but the US comes at his material with an intensity which rekindles memories of some of Ingmar Bergman’s most fraught and closely focused character studies.”' Geoffrey Macnab, The Independent