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    <em>May December </em>Exposes the Art of Self-Deception

    Todd Haynes’s film is a beautiful, terrible nesting doll of a story with a uniquely twisted core.
    by Shirley Li Dec 01, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: François Duhamel / Netflix

    In Todd Haynes’s new film, , an actor named Elizabeth (played by Natalie Portman) arrives in Savannah, Georgia, for a very particular assignment. She intends to study the life of Gracie (Julianne Moore), a woman who became a tabloid fixture in the ’90s after she, at 36 years old and with a family of her own, was caught having sex with a then-13-year-old boy named Joe. Elizabeth is set to play Gracie in a movie, and she’s struck by Gracie’s blithe demeanor when they meet. More than two decades after the scandal broke, Gracie has built a seemingly idyllic life with Joe (Charles Melton): They’re married, with three children—including one she had while serving her prison sentence—and they live in a beautiful waterfront home. Gracie

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