MAY DECEMBER

By Todd HAYNES

NETFLIX, INC. - as DISTR VOD

Drama - Completed 2022

Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, a married couple buckles under the pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a film about their past.

Festivals
& Awards

Festival de Cannes 2023
Competition
San Sebastian FF 2023
Perlak
Zurich FF 2023
Gala Premieres
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Drama
    • Countries
    • USA
    • Director(s)
    • Todd HAYNES
    • Writer(s)
    • Samy BURCH
    • Producer(s)
    • Jessica ELBAUM, Will FERRELL, Christine VACHON, Pam KOFFLER, Natalie PORTMAN, Sophie MAS, Grant S. JOHNSON, Tyler W KONNEY
    • Synopsis
    • Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze. Joe, never having processed what happened in his youth, starts to confront the reality of life as an empty-nester at thirty-six. And as Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the similarities and differences between the two women begin to ebb and flow. Set in picturesque and comfortable Camden, Maine, May December is an exploration of truth, storytelling, and the difficulties (or impossibility) of fully understanding another person.