Todd Haynes often presents us with characters who go through, if not face, extraordinary circumstances. Most of them take charge of their own lives and the decisions he makes, and so on The secrets of a scandal (May December) those of Juliana Moore and Natalie Portman will take care of them.
It’s just that Todd Haynes (Far from heaven, Carol) is like Pedro Almodóvar, a director who breaks down the female characters that he creates very well the screenplay, nominated for an Oscarnot yours.
If sexual relations are also the fertile ground in which the protagonists immerse themselves and sometimes emerge without burns or wounds, Gracie (Julianne Moore) ended up in prison a quarter of a century ago, when she was 36 years old and was discovered having sex with a minor age under 13 years. She is married with children, she has had another “behind bars”, as we read on the covers of yellow magazines. Gracie worked in a pet store in Savannah, Georgia, and Joe, from a Korean family, was her assistant.
Portman, Moore and the scene from Todd Haynes’ film reminiscent of Ingmar Bergman. Photo diamond filmsTime has passed, but things in the city are still difficult for Gracie. And for Joe, as the relationship continued, they had more children and Joe is now the age Gracie was when the romantic relationship began.
But the film does not begin with these two characters, but with the butterflies that we will see being born from the cocoons. That transformation. Perhaps Todd Haynes has never been so metaphorical in his successes.
Julianne Moore and Charles Melton, in the present. She had sex with him when he was 13 and she was 36.Julianne Moore welcomes Natalie Portman
The couple welcomes Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman), the actress who will play Gracie in a film about what happened between 1992 and 1994. Famous for a television series, Elizabeth will research her character directly. She will talk to Gracie – who she hopes to be treated “better” and with other nuances – about her, with Joe and with her ex-husband. She wants to understand her character’s motivations and will find herself in a mess that she herself may not be able to get out of.
“The most interesting thing is the complexity, the moral gray areas,” Elizabeth says in an open chat with high school students… which includes one of Gracie and Joe’s daughters.
The film is also about appearances, love and how that adapts over the years, and not just because of the age difference when they started the relationship. Gracie and Joe pretend or pretend to insist that they are still in love, but in the intimacy of bed things don’t seem that way, and Joe exchanges text messages with another person at all times, which indicates a disinterest between them.
It is Julianne Moore’s fourth performance in a film by director Todd Haynes.New collaboration between the director and Julianne Moore, next Safe, far from the skyit is AmazedWhile her role is an important one, Moore left the thread of who drives the story to Portman, who is simply fantastic at creating this actress who calls upon what she feels is necessary to help her construct her role.
Charles Melton (from the series Riverdale) has the most difficult character in this relationship triangle and hasn’t had the best perspective.
Moore left the thread of who leads the story to Portman.Dramatic comedy. United States, 2023. Original title: “May December”. 118′, SAM 13 R. From: Todd Haynes. With: Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Charles Melton. Gabriele Chung. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto and Unicenter, Cinépolis Recoleta and Pilar, Showcase Belgrano and Norcenter.
Source: Clarin
