He went on to helm acclaimed features like 1991’s Poison, inspired by the French writer Jean Genet, and the Julianne Moore-starring Safe (1995) and Far From Heaven (2002), which don’t seem so queer, at least at first. Haynes, who is gay, became known as a pioneer of what we called the New Queer Cinema movement in the ’90s (ask your Gen X friends, they’ll tell you all about it), after making the experimental, banned Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, in which the singer is literally embodied by a Barbie doll. Since the late 1980s, the director has crafted gorgeous, hyper-intelligent films, often period pieces centering women, with an unmistakably queer streak. 17, a new generation was introduced to the particular, peculiar pleasures of a Todd Haynes movie. When Netflix’s May December hit theaters on Nov.
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