A scandalous age-gap relationship plays out at the centre of 'May December' which deb𒊎uted recently at the Cannes Film Festival.
In the starry romantic drama directed b🥀y Todd Haynes, Julianne Moore plays the 'December' to Charles Melton's much-younger 'May', whose cha♛racter was just 13 when the two fell in love, reports 'Variety'.
It's a complicated dynamic, Moore admitted, because oꦍf the time in their lives when they🦋 first met.
"An age gap is one thing, but a relationship between an adult and a child is a different thing entirely," Moore said at Sunday'⛄s press conference for 'May December' which was embraced in the Grand Palais the day prior with an enthusiastic six-minute standing ovatꦦion.
"When is age inappropriate? It's when people are in different places developmentally, when someone is not an adult. This is why we have boundaries around that," sh𓆏e said, quoted by 'Variety'. "The reason why this movie feels so dangerous watching it is because people don't know where anyone's boundaries are. It feels scary."
In 'May Dece🎶mber', Natalie Portman plays an actress who travels to Maine to st൲udy the life of Moore's character, whom she's set to play in a film.
As per 'Variety', Moore and Melton portray as a married coup🐟le whose 20-year age gap inspired a national tabloid scandal. As they plan to send their twin girls off to college, the family dynamic begins to buckle as Portman delves into their past.
Given America's obsession with scandal, Portman says there was no shortage of materi𝓰al to mine for inspiration.
"We had all the inspirational tabloid materials that existed. There was a book with a crazy title, like "Punished for Love," or something like that," she recalled. "We had those reso🎃urces at our fingertips, which was he💝lpful at getting background."
Portman describes the film as a study of "the different roles we play in different environments." She observes that discrepancy is particularly on display at the Cannes Film Festival, where women are mandated to w🐼ear heels on the red carpet.
"Even here, the different ways we, as women, are expected to behave at this festival even compared to men... how we're supposed to look, how we're supposed to carry ourselves," she said. 🍰"The expectations are different for you all the time. It affects how you behave, whether you are buying into or rejecting it. You're defined by the social structures upon you".
