May December | Review

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Todd Haynes’ deliciously dark melodrama sees Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman go head-to-head as a housewife and the woman tasked with playing her in a film.

Adding melodrama to the seemingly endless list of genres he can turn his hand to, Todd Haynes creates a thorny, completely compelling feature from Samy Burch’s acerbic script in May December, as an actress tries to get under the skin of the woman she’s scheduled to play in an upcoming biopic. Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) is best known for her work on Norah’s Arc – a television show in which she plays a veterinarian. Although she’s “so lucky to have the show”, she yearns for the legitimacy of a meaty film role and thinks it might exist in the indie film she’s starring in which tells the story of Joe and Gracie Atherton-Yoo…

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