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Siskoid
20th Century Women, set in 1979 but using a biographical array of voices that provides much more than that one moment in time, is about a 53-year-old single mother (Annette Benning) who asks two much younger women (Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning) to help raise her teenager, only she might come to regret it. A beautiful and honest film, full of truth, central among which that you can never truly know another human being, no matter how close, through your own assumptions and projections. Mike Mills' story is semi-autobiographical and though it seems like his female characters are vibrant, quirky and real people (more than the boy who stands in for him), he seems to admit in the text his incapacity to render them with fidelity. Overtly feminist - it's not exactly subtext - this political background does a good job, I think, of explaining what it is to have been raised in a modern matriarchy. (Guilty!) 20th Century Women renders a touching portrait of each of its characters, with interesting flights of structural and directorial fancy.julliette
UnderappreciatedBoboxy
20th Century Women never makes it too much: always height just, never conceited. Through a brilliant BO, some magnificent plans, delicious dialogues, sometimes funny, sometimes sad situations (and which always make effect) Mike Mills delivers us a beautiful and sincere movie with three portraits of brilliant women and the portrait of an extremely moving young man. Enormous crush for my part.audiopile
A glimpse into the life of normal people and their real struggles. Started off a little slow but as the story unfolded I began to feel a connection with the characters.Watching it brought about the same feelings as "the Ice Storm".
airi86ja
just beautifulWorzel
I've just re-watched this one and it really stands the test. Such an amazing cast; the 3 women were who I remembered of course but the title probably skewed my memory and what it also is about, is the raising of a man in a world where he is taught to respect women as equals.With a great performance from the boy, too (Lucas Jade Zumann)
dajmasta94
Mike Mills has talent but leans on some tendencies that bring an air of pretension. It doesn't overcrowd this film or his first film, Beginners, but it is distracting when it's there. I'm referring to the use of narration and it's attempts to sometimes place the stories into some bigger, deeper context. This concept isn't pretentious in and of itself but the laziness of attempting to do something as delicate as that with outright narration is off putting and and ruins the desired effect for me. Sometimes it works and sometimes it feels contrive. Overall I really enjoy the characters, their interactions with each other and their subsequent development. There's a lot happening and it takes a little while for this one to find it's groove pacing wise but once it does it's nice. Not quite as good as Beginners but the use of the same type of narrative tropes might have undercut a little of what makes this film unique. I'm hoping his next venture won't fall back on this same narration style, it would almost certainly have become entirely stale by that point. Good performances, stellar cast, nice soundtrack. Worth your time.