'May December' director: women pay higher price than men for breaking rules

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CANNES : Todd Haynes' new romantic drama 'May December' shines a critical spotlight on the way women who break society's rules are held to much stricter standards than badly behaving men.In the movie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night, Julianne Moore plays a woman whose relatio

CANNES : Todd Haynes' new romantic drama"May December" shines a critical spotlight on the way women who break society's rules are held to much stricter standards than badly behaving men.

"We expect this of men, these transgressions. We don't of women. And we think 'what about her family? What about her kids?'" Haynes told Reuters on Sunday."So the women are also burdened with an extra and unequal amount of criticism when this is the very same thing that can happen with people." Her often boundary-crossing presence dredges up uncomfortable questions that Moore's husband, played by Charles Melton of"Riverdale", had never fully considered before.

 

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