Todd Haynes
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Surface and Substance in 'May/December' October 09, 2024
About halfway through Todd Haynes’s May/December, Natalie Portman’s character places her hand on top of another – an X-ray image of an anonymous stranger’s hand and the bones inside. It is as if, merely by touching the facsimile of a skeleton, she mi...
Todd Haynes’s Sex-Offender Story Hour January 11, 2024
In May December, Todd Haynes takes the 1997 scandal in which Mary Kay Letourneau pleaded guilty to two counts of felony second-degree rape of a child, and attempts to normalize it as an art-cinema exercise. He changes the facts of a sexual relationsh...
The Many Layers of 'May December' January 09, 2024
In the opening moments of Todd Haynes’s May December, scandalous tabloid subject-turned-homemaker Gracie (Julianne Moore) opens a refrigerator, dramatically accompanied by a sudden piano sting and an ominous camera zoom.The twist? They might not have...
