Director Todd Haynes, left, and Natalie Portman pose for portrait photographs for the film 'May December' at the 76th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Sunday, May 21, 2023. Natalie Portman stars as an actor researching an upcoming film that's to dramatize a scandal from 20 years earlier. The film, scripted by Samy Burch, takes a light but deliberate touch in navigating through thorny themes of performance and identity. “It was tonally such an amazing script and so rigorous,” Haynes said in an interview alongside Portman. It can be vampiric to take human emotion and human story and capitalize on it and tell a story,” Portman says.

Source: The Nation May 23, 2023 00:10 UTC