20th Century Women

2016 • 118 minutu

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With 20th Century Women, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills (the Academy Award-winning Beginners) brings us a richly multilayered, funny, heart-stirring celebration of the complexities of women, family, time and the connections we search for our whole lives. It is a film that keeps redefining itself as it goes along, shifting with its characters as they navigate the pivotal summer of 1979. Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann, in a breakout performance) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing -- via Abbie (Greta Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Elle Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor.

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Ghastly. The film puts forth this idea that anyone can be whatever they want, but then it reels it back in to say that only includes women. Men just suck. If you're watching for performances, they're good. If you're watching for anything like truth or insight into the human condition, you should pass.

I absolutely love this movie. This is second outing from the young director. His previous movie "Beginners" was equally good. Annette Benning is fabulous. I was so pissed that she wasn't nominated for the Oscars.

Loved this movie. While the title says 'women' it is really a movie about the mother. Paced well, and it feels intimate though it respects the privacy of these characters. I also especially love the inter-generational discourse. Be warned, this is definitely of a certain time, and does not have much minority representation. But it is lovely, and it is very well made.