Review by blanbrn

"May December" is for sure and certainly a film of mature and not light subject matter, still you as the viewer will feel the complex and harsh emotions of the central characters as the scenes are telling and revealing with all involved.

The story involves a 20 year old tabloid like romance between a married couple Gracie(Julianne Moore) and Joe(Charles Melton). However this all began in a very dark form when Gracie was a school teacher and started with the seduction and dating of Joe at the age of 13. The affair as shown in the film was a legal and front page drama headline sensation.

Now in a wild card like moment and big play of the film enter Elizabeth(the always super great Natalie Portman) an actress who comes into town and enters the life of Joe and Gracie, as she has plenty of stories to take in and do her own research as she gets ready to play Gracie in a film about the love affair.

Along the way all involved get to know one another and feel each other out as strengths and weaknesses are learned and secrets and past lives are revealed and desire and passions are given into. Overall director Todd Haynes makes a pretty compelling character study of raw and real like acceptance showing things in the lives of grown up adults. "May December" may not be everyone's cup of tea, yet I found it an interesting emotional like drama to where the characters open up to one another, plus the acting and on screen chemistry between Moore and Portman is top notch in A plus form.