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May December is an upcoming movie starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore that Netflix just acquired the rights to at the Cannes Film Festival. The number is said to be a whopping $11 million and applies to North America alone.
The film was directed by an Oscar nominee Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, The Velvet Underground) and written by Samy Burch with the selected script The blacklist 2020.
Haynes commented on the Netflix news on the spot in Cannes:
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Director Todd Haynes on Netflix’s overnight purchase of ‘May December’: ‘It just gave us all courage…’ #Cannes
Read about the deal here: https://t.co/okIO51F6Pm pic.twitter.com/iRsX3lvrXm
— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 23, 2023
Netflix’s May December premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and at the time of writing has a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 89% based on 35 reviews. The Independent wrote: “May December is a no frills, no special effects film. It’s a tightly focused character study, driven by the great performances of Portman and Moore, and explores areas that more conventional drama can’t quite reach.”
Just also praised the film: “A most compelling film about Hollywood vanity, interpersonal sadism and the human capacity for self-deception.”
Filming for the film took place in Savannah, Georgia between October and November 2022 and the film’s running time was 113 minutes.
What is the plot? May December?
Here is the synopsis for Netflix May December:
“May December refers to the nature of a scandalous romance between a married woman and a 13-year-old that was a tabloid staple 20 years ago. As in the May-December romance between teacher Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau, Moore’s character served time for seducing an underage teenager, but eventually married the teenager and they moved away to start a family and to live a quiet life. The film is triggered by the interaction between the couple and an actress (Portman) who travels to Maine to study the life of the woman she will play in a film. Sparks fly between the three as unresolved issues resurface in a romantic drama.
Twenty years after their infamous tabloid love story swept across the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior) are preparing for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry spends time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will play in a film, family dynamics are thrown off balance under pressure from outsiders. Joe, who never came to terms with what happened when he was young, begins to confront the reality of life as an empty nester at thirty-six. And as Elizabeth and Gracie gaze at each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to fade. Set in quaint and cozy Camden, Maine, “May December” is an exploration of truth, storytelling, and the difficulty (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.”
in a (n Interview with Haynessaid the prolific director, the film “explores one of the great abilities of the human species: our categorical refusal to look ourselves in the face.”
No trailer for the film has been released yet, although a short clip was released to the public during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival:
For more clips of the cast and crew, visit the film’s official site Website Festival-Cannes.com.
Who’s in? May December?
Netflix’s May December is guided by stars Natalie Portman And Julianne Moore. Portman, who only starred in a Netflix Original called Annihilation (although it wasn’t available in the US), plays the role of Elizabeth and Moore (who starred in Netflix). The woman in the window and tells The Ghost: Explained) plays Grace.
joins them Charles Melton, Jocelyn Shelfo, Cory Michael Smith and Piper Curda.
What is the Netflix release date? May December?
Netflix has not announced the release date for May December not yet, but we expect some time this year. We must note that Netflix will only distribute the film in North America.