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.
Critics Reviews:
- “May December is not just a skilful satire of suburban propriety; it’s a unique and uncanny affair about the nature of performance itself.” – Steph Green (Empire Magazine)
- “Both performances are built out of distancing devices, and the whole film is shot through with camp irony, though the effect, as usual with Haynes, is more conceptual than outright funny.” – Jake Wilson (The Age (Australia))
- “Todd Haynes is a filmmaker who, on top of telling a story about vulnerable people and their digressions, tells the story about the predatory ways we consume those narratives, and the boundaries we cross when creating those narratives.” – Radheyan Simonpillai (CBC Radio)
- “Haynes has made a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a film with a uniquely twisted core. Beneath the droll portrait of an actor’s obsession with her muse is an unsettling tale of what happens when people refuse to tell the truth.” – Shirley Li (The Atlantic)
