Todd Haynes' May December gets six-minute standing ovation at Cannes premiere

Todd Haynes is back at the Cannes Film Festival, this time with his latest sex scandal drama, May December. The movie featuresHollywood divas Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, who have always been lauded for their acting prowess. On Saturday, the movie premiere got delayed due to Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon, which premiered before Todd's film.

The movie, which premiered at the Grand Theatre Lumière, got an outstanding reaction from the audience. Upon its conclusion, the movie received a six-minute standing ovation and a huge round of applause.

After the overwhelming response, Haynes addressed the audience present at the Lumière theatres and said: "The making of this film was such a joy. We threw this film together incredibly quickly,” said Haynes beforeadding that they shot for only 23 days in Savannah, Georgia. “It took everybody’s creative participation to make it possible.”

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Helmed by Todd Haynes with a screenplay by Samy Burch, the movie stars Portman as Elizabeth, an actor who heads to Savannah to study the lives of Gracie (Moore) and Joe ( Charles Melton). Years prior, Gracie and Joe's romance sparked a national controversy due to their huge age gap.

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The ace director has a long-standing relationship with Cannes. For the unversed, he made his debut at the prestigious film festival in 1998 with Velvet Goldmine, which won a prize for best artistic contribution. A decade later, he returned to the festival in 2015 with his movie Carol, which received a 10-minute standing ovation and the best actress prize for Rooney Mara. The last film that was in the competition was his 2018's Wonderstruck.

Haynes'2021 documentary Velvet Underground was also screened at the festival.

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