The Stunted Emotional Lives of May December

May December is not designed to provide easy answers. Todd Haynes’s new film stars Natalie Portman as an actor named Elizabeth who begins shadowing a woman who slept with a 13-year-old student in the 1990s, sparking a tabloid scandal. It’s a story obviously inspired by the Mary Kay Letourneau case, but it takes place in 2015 with the woman, Gracie (played by Julianne Moore), now out of prison, married to the now-adult Joe (Charles Melton) and raising their three children together. Over the course of the film...