Todd Haynes’ ‘May December’ Gets Eight-Minute Standing Ovation At Cannes Premiere
deadline.comTodd Haynes returned to the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday night with his latest, May December, playing in competition. The complex melodrama starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore scored an eight-minute standing ovation inside the Grand Theatre Lumière.
The screening started late after an almost 40-minute delay due to the late start of the movie that premiered before Haynes’, that being Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon.
It was a bit of a tired crowd that finally entered the venue to see Haynes’ latest. The enthusiastic response in Cannes’ biggest venue was at least matched by a simultaneous press screening at the adjacent Debussy Theatre, where there was huge applause — a rare feat for the press core here. RELATED: Cannes Film Festival 2023 In Photos Said Haynes in addressing the Lumière audience while standing between Portman and Moore: “The making of this film was such a joy…we shot it in 23 days in Savannah — it took everybody’s full cooperation to make this possible.”Todd Haynes addresses audience after an 8 minute standing ovation for his ‘May September’ melodrama .
Screening began 35 minutes later due to tardiness of those involved with ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’. That film started 40 minutes behind schedule #Cannes pic.twitter.com/dgUkh9OStE In May December, Haynes tells the story of two women at two stages of their lives.
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