An exceptional evening tomorrow at the Fulgor cinema in Rimini. The American director and screenwriter Todd Haynes will be a live guest at 9pm to present and introduce his latest work, “May December”, which stars Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore.
The story of “May December” is something for Haynes, director of numerous successful films such as “Carol” (2015), “I’m Not Here” (2007), “Far From Heaven” (2002), which retains a particular affinity with the king of melodrama Douglas Sirk whose determination to explore the universe of social prohibition he shares. After having addressed her husband’s homosexuality in “Far From Heaven”, that of Carol and Therese in “Carol”, now with “May December” she turns the spotlight on the relationship between a woman and a teenager.
The film tells of Elizabeth, a successful actress who temporarily moves into the home of Gracie Atherton-Yoo, the woman she will play in a biopic. Years earlier, Gracie had found herself at the center of a scandal that all the mass media had talked about: an exemplary wife and mother in a small town in the southern United States, at the age of 36 she had started an extramarital affair with Joe Yoo, a thirteen-year-old of Korean origin . The affair had come out in the open and Gracie had left her husband and son to live out her affair with Joe, defying the disapproval of her ex-husband and her son, as well as the Savannah community. Joe and Gracie had married, had three children, and continued to live in their small town proclaiming their true love. However, Elizabeth’s arrival will act as a litmus test of all the problems removed by Grace, who sports a constant smile and an inexhaustible ability to appear unscathed by that scandal.
Online tickets on the Fulgor cinema website