Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay!

Elizabeth (Portman), a popular television star, has arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Moore), whom she’ll be playing on-screen, and her much younger husband, Joe (Melton), to better understand the psychology and circumstances that more than 20 years ago made them notorious tabloid figures. Boasting a trio of bravura, mercurial performances by Moore, Portman, and Melton, MAY DECEMBER is a film about human exploitation, the elusive nature of performance, and the slipperiness of truth that confirms Todd Haynes’s status as one of our consummate movie artists. – Film at Lincoln Center 

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