20th Century Women (2016)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.0:1 119m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann
Synopsis:
California, 1979: a single mother torments over whether she can bring her adolescent son to maturity appropriately, and enlists the help of her lodgers in varying ways to help him towards sexual awareness.
Review:
A diamond role for Bening, and she turns in a typically fine performance as a woman brought up in the depression and struggling to make sense of the hippie generation and beyond. The film can be enjoyed on many different levels, however, for it also speaks for the predicaments of the younger characters, particularly female, for it is they who are presented as having more to contend with in life. Culturally, it is also an instructive time capsule, and the scene where the assembled characters sit around a TV set to view President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech is a contrast with the present in more ways than one.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.0:1 119m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann
Synopsis:
California, 1979: a single mother torments over whether she can bring her adolescent son to maturity appropriately, and enlists the help of her lodgers in varying ways to help him towards sexual awareness.
Review:
A diamond role for Bening, and she turns in a typically fine performance as a woman brought up in the depression and struggling to make sense of the hippie generation and beyond. The film can be enjoyed on many different levels, however, for it also speaks for the predicaments of the younger characters, particularly female, for it is they who are presented as having more to contend with in life. Culturally, it is also an instructive time capsule, and the scene where the assembled characters sit around a TV set to view President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech is a contrast with the present in more ways than one.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.0:1 119m
Director: Mike Mills
Cast: Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Lucas Jade Zumann
Synopsis:
California, 1979: a single mother torments over whether she can bring her adolescent son to maturity appropriately, and enlists the help of her lodgers in varying ways to help him towards sexual awareness.
Review:
A diamond role for Bening, and she turns in a typically fine performance as a woman brought up in the depression and struggling to make sense of the hippie generation and beyond. The film can be enjoyed on many different levels, however, for it also speaks for the predicaments of the younger characters, particularly female, for it is they who are presented as having more to contend with in life. Culturally, it is also an instructive time capsule, and the scene where the assembled characters sit around a TV set to view President Carter's Crisis of Confidence speech is a contrast with the present in more ways than one.