![]() Alfred Hitchcock used to talk about being able to play the audience like a piano, hitting each key to get a specific emotional response Haynes plays us like an accordion, stretching us out in myriad ways to hit the right notes. ![]() It’s designed to pull you in multiple directions at once, and it uses emotional disassociation to its advantage: It makes you feel one thing, and then makes you wonder if you should be feeling something entirely different instead. Todd Haynes’s May December is a booby trap of a movie. Be sure to also read our In Conversation with director Todd Haynes. We are recirculating it now timed to May December ’s arrival on Netflix. This review was originally published in May out of the Cannes Film Festival. ![]() ![]() Stepping out into the rainy night, however, I felt like I needed to take a shower. Watching it in a theater at Cannes, I found myself cackling with delight. ![]()
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