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* TheThreeFacesOfEve: Deconstructed. Technically, Gracie is the wife (she is literally Joe's wife), while Elizabeth is the seductress. However, [[spoiler:Elizabeth is channelling Gracie in her behavior towards Joe when she seduced him as a kid, leading him to reevaluate the nature of their relationship.]] Gracie and Joe's youngest daughter, Mary, is technically the child, as the youngest member of the trio of women. At the same time, though, Mary takes on aspects of the wife in her behavior towards Gracie, which shows her being more mature than her mother, while Gracie throws tantrums and manipulates both Mary and Joe with her emotional immaturity.
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* {{Homage}}: The soundtrack was heavily taken from the film adaptation of ''Literature/TheGoBetween.''
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Gracie sleeping with the thirteen-year-old Joe, bearing his child in prison, and marriage to him in the 1990s are strongly inspired by the real life case of Mary Kay Letourneau and her rape and eventual marriage to Vili Fualaau, her sixth-grade student, from the same time period. The line "who [was] the boss, who [was] in charge", [[spoiler:said by Gracie when Joe first tries to discuss the power imbalance of their relationship]], is even taken [[https://twitter.com/LouisPeitzman/status/1730959465887768853 directly from an interview]] with Letourneau and Fualaau.
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* RomanAClef: Gracie sleeping with the thirteen-year-old Joe, bearing his child in prison, and marriage to him in the 1990s are strongly inspired by the real life case of Mary Kay Letourneau and her rape and eventual marriage to Vili Fualaau, her sixth-grade student, from the same time period. The line "who [was] the boss, who [was] in charge", [[spoiler:said by Gracie when Joe first tries to discuss the power imbalance of their relationship]], is even taken [[https://twitter.com/LouisPeitzman/status/1730959465887768853 directly from an interview]] with Letourneau and Fualaau.
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* DoubleMeaningTitle: Referencing both a MayDecemberRomance [[https://letterboxd.com/journal/todd-haynes-may-december-watchlist-interview/ and the film's setting in May]]:
--> Creator/ToddHaynes: ...the film’s title plays into the month of May, too, and May is the bracketed month of an inevitability around the summer. It begins with a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays Memorial Day]] celebration and ends with graduation. So all this anxiety and nerves are circulating through that month and it plays into the title as well.
--> Creator/ToddHaynes: ...the film’s title plays into the month of May, too, and May is the bracketed month of an inevitability around the summer. It begins with a [[UsefulNotes/AmericanHolidays Memorial Day]] celebration and ends with graduation. So all this anxiety and nerves are circulating through that month and it plays into the title as well.
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* ChildByRape: Joe and Gracie's eldest child Honor, who was conceived from Gracie's molestation of Joe when he was a child.
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''May December'' is the fifth collaboration between Creator/ToddHaynes and Creator/JulianneMoore. It premiered at Cannes in 2023, before being picked up (for North American distribution) by Creator/{{Netflix}}. It is inspired by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Letourneau Mary Kay Letourneau]] statutory rape affair.
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''May December'' is the fifth collaboration between Creator/ToddHaynes and Creator/JulianneMoore. It premiered at Cannes in 2023, before being picked up (for North American distribution) by Creator/{{Netflix}}. It is inspired by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Kay_Letourneau Mary Kay Letourneau]] Letourneau/Fualaau]] statutory rape affair.
