Gay romance banned for minors in the United States: Joaquin Phoenix directed by the big director of Cannes 2023.

Six years after Wonder Woman, Todd Haynes made his big comeback this year at the Cannes Film Festival in May-December, where he photographed Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman for the Oscar-winning films Still Alice and Black Swan, respectively. And he announced that another actor who won the coveted golden statue would be a part of his next project.

“My next film is a feature film based on an original script that I developed Joaquin Phoenixfrom the thoughts and ideas he imparted to me”– says the film director in an interview Indiewire.

“John RaymondJoaquin and I will be written as screenwriters. And we hope to shoot next year. It’s a gay love story set in 1930s Los Angeles.”

A feature film that, if not yet titled, promises to be raw. “Joaquin was pushing me to go further and saying ‘No, let’s go even further’. The film will be rated NC-17.” Which, in the United States, equates to an outright ban on viewers under 17, regardless of whether they are accompanied by an adult.

The seal with which “Last Tango in Paris” or “La Vie d’Adèle” was cut, for example, when they were released in the United States, while they are respectively prohibited for children under 16 and children under 12 with a warning in France, the question of sexuality is more taboo in the Atlantic Ocean.

While we wait to find out more (and while Todd Haynes is also developing a new series for HBO with Kate Winslet, after Mildred Pierce), this project could be Joaquin Phoenix’s consolation for missing the mystery of Brokeback Mountain. , which he was discussed (along with Matt Damon) when Gus Van Sant was in talks to direct.