, a “sexually explicit” movie telling a “love story between two men set in the 30s.”
Loosely based on the story of Mary Kay Letourneau, the teacher who had an affair with her 6th grade student, “May December” has already earned awards buzz since world premiering in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where it was bought by Netflix. In France, the movie will be released by ARP Selection in January.It’s a love story between two men set in the 30s that has explicit sexual content that or at least it challenges you with the sexual relationship between these two men.
This is how I experienced that script. When it first came to me that’s what I loved about it. So my job was to try to find ways to convey that cinematically, to encourage and allow that sense of not knowing what you think — to create a pleasurable challenge to the viewer. Not a frustration, but something that was an invitation. And this music, this score that I heard when I saw “The G-Between” , while I was preparing “May December” last year. I loved how it puts you on alert.
It’s interesting what you said about financiers being concerned that a movie with a predominantly female cast will make less money. What about “Barbie”? Of course, there have always been exceptions. It’s just that we still live in a culture that reverts back to its its norms. And, in fact, it even goes farther backwards. Look at what’s happening everywhere today. There’s a reactionary strain that comes out of the conservative parties in America and throughout Europe. And far more ease in using a kind of language against minorities and targeting minorities that we’ve become all too used to. It’s exhausting to be shocked by it every day.