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'May December' Is A Melodramatic Mirror World
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'May December' Is A Melodramatic Mirror World

Todd Haynes's jarringly pulpy – and unsettlingly funny – movie examines our fascination with tabloid scandals and art drawn from real life.
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This week, we finally got around to discussing the movie everyone has been talking about: “May December,” a film “loosely inspired” by the Mary Kay Letourneau-Vili case. Directed by Todd Haynes and written by Samy Burch and Alex Mechanik, it stars Natalie Portman as Elizabeth Berry, an actress researching her role playing Gracie A…

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