{"id":1810,"date":"2016-12-09T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-09T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2017-12-09T13:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T13:43:17","slug":"20th-century-women-usa-thu-30-november-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/20th-century-women-usa-thu-30-november-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"20TH CENTURY WOMEN [USA], THU 30 NOVEMBER, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AunFkkNKxJY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Annette Bening stars as a single mother who recruits two women to help raise her son in this warm drama set in Southern California in the late 1970s.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Director Mike Mills follows Beginners, his Oscar-winning study of the relationship between a son and his gay father, with another picture that takes as its jumping-off point the bond between parent and child. In the case of this late 70s-set cultural odyssey, the parent is gregarious, open-minded single mother Dorothea (the superb Annette Bening) and the child is Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), the teenage son she isn\u2019t quite sure she can guide on his path to becoming a man.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, she recruits the help of two other women to help raise him. Her lodger, Abbie (Greta Gerwig), is a photographer crowd surfing on the anger and energy of the new wave scene. And Julie (Elle Fanning) is Jamie\u2019s best friend, a sullen beauty who is casually oblivious to the fact that he is in love with her.<\/p>\n<p>But the 20th century is almost as important a character as the women. Mills weaves together a tapestry of social, cultural and political strands. In part of the extensive voiceover, delivered predominantly by Dorothea and Jamie, the boy talks of his last memory of his absent father \u2013 a birthday in 1974 \u2013 which deftly links mid-70s fashion trends (mirrored sunglasses) with news events (President Gerald Ford\u2019s historic tumble down the steps of Air Force One) and with vomit on a carpet.<\/p>\n<p>Mills makes reference to the experimental documentary Koyaanisqatsi with accelerated clips of teeming southern California life; he even includes a clip of Koyaanisqatsi itself to emphasise the parallel. Dorothea\u2019s 1940s jazz rubs shoulders with Talking Heads and Black Flag; still photography mood boards give way to psyched-out, colour-saturated \u201cfilm burn\u201d effects, which nod to the California hippie hotbed that spawned the film\u2019s other key character, William (Billy Crudup). There\u2019s a certain arch self-awareness in the screenwriting that won\u2019t appeal to everyone, but I loved the film for its scrapbook structure, its warmth and candour.&#8221; &#8211;\u00a0Wendy Ide, The Guardian<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;<em>Annette Bening is the pitch-perfect centerpiece.&#8217;<\/em> &#8211; \u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-et-mn-20th-century-women-review-20161227-story.html\">Los Angeles Times<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/movies\/la-ca-mn-010117-20th-century-women-production-20161221-story.html\">Click here to read feature article about the film in the Los Angeles Times.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>USA, 2017 | Language: English | 118 minutes | Cert: 16<\/p>\n<p>Writer\/Director: Mike Mills<\/p>\n<p>Cast: Annette Benning, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig,\u00a0Lucas Jade Zumann<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Bening stars as a single mother who recruits two women to help raise her son in this warm drama set in Southern California in the late 1970s. &#8220;Director Mike&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[25,18,22,28,21,24,19,23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1869,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}