Actress Elizabeth visits an unusual wife whom she is about to play in a movie: Gracie, who had sex with her husband Joe when he was 13 years old, and she was 36. Gracie gave birth to their child in prison, but upon release she married Joe, and now they have three kids: Honor, Charlie and Mary. Elizabeth befriends Gracie and Joe, stays at their house, and studies their behavior. Joe has sex with Elizabeth, but regrets it. Charlie and Mary graduate, while Gracie tells Elizabeth to beat it. Elizabeth later films the movie on set.
What would happen to a grown woman who had sex with a 13-year old boy 20 years later? Todd Haynes' "May December" is a movie that tells this story after the paparazzi sensationalism, depicting it in a restrained, clinical and cold manner, showing this couple (Gracie, Joe) now married, with kids, as they are visited by an actress, Elizabeth, who studies Gracie to play her in a movie. The sole story is "spicy", but the movie isn't very cinematic. It's all rather stale after one gets used to the opening concept, since the storyline doesn't know what to do with this in the end. Natalie Portman as Elizabeth and Julianne Moore as Gracie are again excellent. The direction is competent, yet it needed more creativity and a better plot that would offer a higher amplitude of events than the rather routine one we got.
Grade:++
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