May December (movie review, no real spoilers)

May December is an excellent movie, with tinges of Bergman’s Persona (just look at the poster at the link) and Girard to boot.  It has some of the finest lines (“That’s what adults do”) and scenes (the make-up exchange) of any film this year or maybe even this decade.  How about Natalie Portman’s “transformation monologue” toward the end?  Or the segment when she explains to high school students what it is like to do a sex scene in a film?  Who in this movie has real desire?  Which of the two women handles celebrity better?  Who envies whom and why?  Interestingly, the movie is also pro-natalist.  Might it be the best product to come out of Hollywood in 2023?