Oscar nominee Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) and Greta Gerwig (Mistress America) lead...
Oscar nominee Annette Bening (The Kids Are All Right), Elle Fanning (The Neon Demon) and Greta Gerwig (Mistress America) lead this comedic, '70s-set, multi-story film about love, family, freedom, and the (sometimes) futile search for meaning. From the writer-director of 2010's Beginners.
Set in Santa Barbara, the film follows Dorothea Fields (Bening), a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie (newcomer Lucas Jade Zumann) at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women in Jamie’s upbringing – via Abbie (Gerwig), a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home, and Julie (Fanning), a savvy and provocative teenage neighbour.
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"20th Century Women is irreducible ... although certain adjectives and adverbs do leap to mind: generous, reflective, absolutely delightful."
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Vulture
Vulture"Despite the movie's title and Bening's central role, women are oddly peripheral."
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Village Voice
Village Voice""20th Century Women" is an endless chain of anecdotes, and though many individual moments are winning, the movie as a whole is rudderless. It never achieves an emotional power surge."
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Variety
Variety"When 20th Century Women concerns itself with the utterly human question of personal satisfaction, it's huggable: the kind of movie you wish more directors had the courage to grab for."
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Time Out
Time Out"Mills's world is certainly not devoid of pain, but it's leached of bitterness, leached of conflict, leached of aggression, leached of hostility; the pain and the trauma are leached of consequence."
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The New Yorker
The New Yorker"Love and loss go hand in hand in "20th Century Women," a funny, emotionally piercing story about a teenager and the women who raise him."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It's a nice film with some great moments but Mills' touch is too tentative to make all that talk buzz and hum as resonantly as it should."
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Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald"A simply glorious Annette Bening leads a stellar cast in Mike Mills' semiautobiographical story about a bohemian women raising a teen in the age of 1970's feminism and punk rock."
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Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone20th Century Women | Details
- Runtime
- 119
- Genre
- Comedy, Drama
- Country of origin
- USA
