May December is a moral provocation disguised as soap opera

Todd Haynes' May December has the melodrama of Haynes ’s Carol and Far From Heaven but dialled up a notch.

Julianne Moore stars as Gracie , a grown woman stuck in a strange state of perma-childhood.

In public she is brittle but composed in public but in private, Moore 's trademark neurotic sob-fests overwhelm.

Charles Melton is small and tight, the twitch of a jaw muscle alone suggests all is not as well as it seems.