NATALIE PORTMAN

Dispatches

May 25, 2023

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CANNES DISPATCH 9 …
Photographs by GREG WILLIAMS

Natalie Portman returns to Cannes for Palme d’Or nominated film, May December, directed by Todd Haynes, with Portman and Sophie Mas acting as co-producers on the film under their production company MountainA.

The story follows actress Elizabeth Berry (Portman) who travels to Maine to speak with Gracie Atherton-Yoo (Julianne Moore) to do research for a film about her notorious tabloid romance with Joe Yoo (Charles Melton), a school boy at the time, and twenty-three years her junior.

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WILLEM DAFOE

Greg Williams takes pause to consider the bigger picture on images seen small on his social media. This issue: Willem Dafoe at the Venice Film Festival in 2018.

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BENOÎT MAGIMEL

‘He’s someone who is a really nasty guy,’ French actor Benoît Magimel admits of his latest character in Léa Mysius’

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