Netflix’s May December had its premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, with a red carpet that featured director Todd Haynes, Natalie Portman, Julianne Moore, Charles Melton, and more.
(L-R) Elizabeth Yu, Piper Curda, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes, Cory Michael Smith and Gabriel Chung attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
May December was released in select theaters in the United States on November 17, 2023, before streaming on Netflix on December 1.
Here are some photos from the event:
(L-R) Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Todd Haynes attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
Natalie Portman
Natalie Portman attends Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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- (L-R) Elizabeth Yu, Piper Curda, Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman, Todd Haynes, Cory Michael Smith and Gabriel Chung attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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- (L-R) Charles Melton, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman and Todd Haynes attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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- Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman attend Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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- Natalie Portman attends Netflix’s May December Los Angeles premiere at Academy Museum of Motion Pictures on November 16, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
In May December, Elizabeth (Natalie Portman), a popular television star, arrived in a tight-knit island community in Savannah. Here, she will be doing intimate research for a new part, ingratiating herself into the lives of Gracie (Julianne Moore), whom she’ll be playing on-screen, and her much younger husband, Joe (Charles Melton), to better understand the psychology and circumstances that more than 20 years ago made them notorious tabloid figures. As Elizabeth attempts to get closer to the family, the uncomfortable facts of their scandal unfurl, causing difficult, long-dormant emotions to resurface.
From the sensational premise born from first-time screenwriter Samy Burch’s brilliant script, director Todd Haynes (Safe, Carol) has constructed an American tale of astonishing richness and depth, which touches the pressure and pleasure points of a culture obsessed equally with celebrity and trauma. It’s a feat of storytelling and pinpoint-precise tone that is shrewd in its wicked embrace of melodrama while also genuinely moving in its humane treatment of tricky subject matter. Boasting a trio of bravura, mercurial performances by Moore, Portman, and Melton, May December is a film about human exploitation, the elusive nature of performance, and the slipperiness of truth that confirms Todd Haynes’s status as one of our consummate movie artists.
