Synopse

Scenes from a marriage: a subtly constructed, unusual romantic drama with great dialogue from Todd Haynes. 20 years ago, the love affair of Gracie Atherton-Yu (Julianne Moore) and her husband Joe (Charles Melton), 23 years her junior, was the talk of the nation. Today, the two actors are still married and their twins are about to graduate from high school. When Hollywood wants to make a film of her life, Elizabeth Berry (Natalie Portman) arrives to research her role as Gracie. But soon the family idyll threatens to fall apart: Joe has never really dealt with the scandal and the gossip – and the longer Elizabeth and Gracie study each other, the more the similarities and differences between the two women begin to blur.

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Regie

TODD HAYNES (*1961 in Los Angeles) is an important pioneer of New Queer Cinema in the USA. His films Carol (2015) and Wonderstruck (2017) ran in competition in Cannes. In 2017, he was awarded the Pardo d’onore Manor by the Locarno Festival. FILMFEST HAMBURG showed his film Dark Waters in 2020.

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