May December

May December

Some roles are transformative.

Rating

2.0 (1)

Release Date

11/16/2023

Runtime

117 mins

Genres

Overview

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.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$20,000,000

Revenue

$4,232,370

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How It Feels

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A acid-sharp examination of how a notorious scandal haunts those who lived it, as an actress's invasive method-acting forces an uncomfortable reckoning with buried truths and performed identities. The film watches uncomfortable people trying to hold together what they've built on deeply compromised ground.

Mood

UnsettlingTenseBittersweet

Themes

IdentityPowerMemoryComing apartObsession

Tone

Ironic

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticHandheld

Structure

Linear

Heads up

Sexual contentSexual violenceChild endangerment

Reviews

stormaciousd

Did they actually let Georgie become the music supervisor? Is he the one who allowed the distracting piano music at the end?

The cast are all giving good performances, but ultimately this was sad to watch, and it's existence is a little weird. I'm not sure if the Mary Kay Letourneau story needed to be told again, a few years after her death while her victim is still alive and seemingly trying to live a private life. Vili has said no one from the film reached out to him. It's ironic to make a movie about an actress spending time with them to "tell the story truthfully" with an ending that shows it's another low budget Lifetime movie, and then for the actual film with very high caliber talent to not reach out to who it is inspired by. I don't know, this just feels icky for more than just the subject matter.

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