The new movie “May December” from the movie poster gives a very misleading message about what this film might be about. This film is a fictional story about a "Mary Kay Letourneau" – like couple, played by Julianne Moore as Gracie and Charles Melton as Joe and a famous movie actress Elizabeth played by Natalie Portman who is doing research for a movie role about their life after Gracie is released from prison. What follows in this story is nothing more than a series of different vignettes and scenes that sometimes seem connected, other scenes not connected with several different characters, and a mostly disjointed story that can put any viewer into a deep coma inside of 45 minutes.
This is another example of trying to be so different at the expense of an enjoyable and understandable story. This entire film is so intent on being so different that, most of what happens is boring and has no satisfying conclusions anywhere, especially with the abrupt and strange ending.
At the end, I thought about why this movie was even made. What was the point of these two hours of an extremely forgettable story. Then while reading and seeing the 90%+ ratings on Rotten Tomatoes I wondered what movie these critics were watching? This movie is a big-time miss, with my rating around 50% only for some of the acting.
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