20th Century Women
The story takes place on a film set in 1979. Its about a single mom Santa Barbara deciding the best way to parent her teenage son with the help of two young women at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion.
5 April 1970, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1 October 1924, Plains, Georgia, USA
June 22, 1988 in Paris, France
3 January 1957, North Hollywood, California, USA
March 22, 2017
We finally have a good film that explores what it looks like to raise a male feminist, particularly during this crucial era. More importantly, we finally have a film that actually cares to do so (shout out to writer/director Mike Mills).
March 09, 2017
Through a polaroid aesthetic and a psychedelic and selective image distortion, the film embarks us on an iconoclastic journey through the devastating irruption of punk in American culture. [Full review in Spanish]
January 20, 2017
It's a credit to Mills that he makes it feel like he's making the Earth move even when he's just capturing a snapshot in time.
February 25, 2017
Clean-shaven Billy Crudup comes off like a creep, but give him a big floppy '70s moustache and the guy's a movie star.
January 19, 2017
"20th Century Women" takes a while to kick in but eventually finds its groove.
January 20, 2017
The film is well worth a look, if just for the performances; just know going in that director Mills calls upon his cast and script to do most of the heavy lifting.
January 18, 2017
The drama of Mike Mills' "20th Century Women" takes place in Annette Bening's masterful pauses.
January 19, 2017
The film's greatest strength is its specific set of characters. While no big events or personal crises happen, no one seems two-dimensional or thin.
March 22, 2017
Mike Mills' 20th Century Women features a magnificent ensemble and several intriguing characters, but thanks to a slight case of overcrowding, many of them and their connections to each other are left largely unexplored.
February 13, 2017
Annette Bening gives a subtle tour de force as the crumbling heroine of this feminist epic.
January 23, 2017
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.
March 09, 2017
Bening shines in 20th Century Women, a small gem of a film.
