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https://www.indiewire.com/2021/06/todd- ... 234644044/
Todd Haynes is looking at a busy Cannes. Not only is the filmmaker behind movies including “Carol” and “Far From Heaven” debuting his new documentary, “The Velvet Underground,” out of competition, but he’s also taking a new film to the Cannes market. He is set to reunite with Julianne Moore and direct, for the first time, Natalie Portman in the film “May December.” The screenplay is written by Samy Burch, with a story by Burch and Alex Mechanik. Principal photography is scheduled to commence next year.
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“Twenty years after their notorious tabloid romance gripped the nation, Gracie Atherton-Yu and her husband Joe (twenty-three years her junior) brace themselves for their twins to graduate from high school. When Hollywood actress Elizabeth Berry comes to spend time with the family to better understand Gracie, who she will be playing in a film, family dynamics unravel under the pressure of the outside gaze."
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“What so appealed to me about Samy Burch’s exceptional script was how it navigated potentially volatile subject matter with a kind of observational patience that allowed the characters in the story to be explored with uncommon subtlety,” said director Todd Haynes in a statement shared with press.

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