Oscar winners Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore join forces for new film May December
The IndependentGet our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman will star together in May December, a new drama from director Todd Haynes. “What so appealed to me about Samy Burch’s exceptional script was how it navigated potentially volatile subject matter with a kind of observational patience that allowed the characters in the story to be explored with uncommon subtlety,” Haynes told Variety. This is the sixth project Haynes will have worked on with Moore, following films including the psychological horror Safe, the 2002 period drama Far From Heaven – for which Moore received an Oscar nomination – and the 2017 mystery Wonderstruck.