Todd Haynes made a secret 17-minute fever dream about making a movie about making a movie.
When asked to create something for the “Où en êtes-vous?” (“Where Are You?”) collection commissioned and posed by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Haynes’s response was this behind-the-scenes film made during the production of May December, which evokes Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and Jean-Luc Godard’s Two or Three Things I Know About Her in its metacinematic exploration of identity.
Direction
Haynes folding Persona into his own process like origami.
Acting
Moore and Portman playing themselves playing themselves playing—stop, I'm dizzy.
Director
Todd Haynes
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