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May December

2023 · Drama · Todd Haynes · 1h 53m

An actress spends a week with the woman she is about to play, whose relationship with a much younger boy was a tabloid story twenty years ago. Mostly two women watching each other very closely in a nice house.

  • Strongly character-driven
  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly intimate
  • Clearly heavy
  • Clearly slow

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