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Genre | Comedy |
Format | NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
Contributor | Annette Bening, Anne Carey, Alia Shawkat, Greta Gerwig, Youree Henley, Mike Mills, Billy Crudup, Megan Ellison, Elle Fanning, Lucas Zumann, Archer Gray; Modern People See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 58 minutes |
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With 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, acclaimed filmmaker Mike Mills (director of the Academy Award®-winning Beginners - won for Best Supporting Actor, 2011) brings us a richly multilayered, funny heart-stirring celebration of the complexities of women, family, time and the connections we search for our whole lives. It is a film that keeps redefining itself as it goes along, shifting with its characters as they navigate the pivotal summer of 1979.
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- MPAA rating : R (Restricted)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 2.4 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Item model number : 43485890
- Director : Mike Mills
- Media Format : NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- Run time : 1 hour and 58 minutes
- Release date : March 28, 2017
- Actors : Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, Alia Shawkat
- Subtitles: : Spanish
- Producers : Youree Henley, Anne Carey, Megan Ellison
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B01MRA563W
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #84,269 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #4,133 in Comedy (Movies & TV)
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game with his friends, where you hold your breath and where a friend grasps your chest resulting in you being rendered unconscious, a hospital emergency room where Jaimie gets treatment because he is taking too long to wake up after playing the chest-grasping game, a therapy group where teenaged girls are in a circle with a therapist, and a doctor's office where Greta Gerwig's character (Abbie) gets checked for cervical cancer.
MY FAVORITE EPISODE. I lived through the entire era of 1960's rock and roll, and am familiar with most or nearly all of the songs from the "oldies" era and the "psychedelic era." Also, my interest in rock'n'roll was revived in the years 1978 to 1984, which was an era when punk music and New Wave music materialized and became highly developed. Because of this I have a great deal of affection for the following episode in this movie. In this episode, Bening's character tries to come to terms with punk music. One of the tenants in her house is played by Greta Gerwig, who is playing a recording by the punk band, The Raincoats. BENING: "What is that?" GERWIG: "It's The Raincoats." BENING: "Can't they . . . just be pretty? Okay so, they're not very good and they know that, right?" GERWIG: "Yah, it's like they've got all of this feeling, and they don't have any skill and they don't want skill, because it's really interesting. What happens when your passion is greater than the tools you have to deal with it. It creates this energy that is raw, isn't it great?" That little episode just "did it for me." I love this little episode of dialogue.
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THE PUNK MUSIC EPISODE. Bening refrains from making any further remarks, and she maintains a blank face. Then, she goes to her own bedroom, sits on the bed smoking a cigarette, and reminisces about her son's life. At this point in the movie, the background music provides a wash of sound that evokes nostalgia. Bening's character provides a narration to the movie about her son's life, while movie shows images from the television news that were from the era when her son was a young child. We see excerpts from television news about Vietnam war, about Nixon, about marijuana smoking, and about Farah Fawcett. In this movie, the "Jaimie" character is 15 years old in 1979. Thus, during the 1960s, he was born and between one year old and five years old.
CINEMATOGRAPHY. Most of the movie uses straight, conventional cinematography. However, on occasion, the moving image is intentionally made slightly blurry and tinged with rainbow colors, as though filmed through a sheet of plastic etched with a diffraction pattern. Another cinematographic effect is where, for intervals of about five seconds, the movements of the characters are dramatically sped up. Yet another aspect of the cinematography, is the use of flashbacks that show television broadcasts from the 1960s, such as a few seconds of acting from famed actress and model, Farah Fawcett, and from a few seconds from a speech by the notorious Richard M. Nixon.
SINATRA vs. LATE 1960's HIPPIES vs. 1980's NEW WAVE. The movie is distinguished by associating various characters with a relevant era, e.g., associating Annette Bening's character with era of the 1940s and 1950s, where crooner music by Frank Sinatra and the like was popular, by associating one of the characters (Billy Crudup) with the era of the late 1960s, where experimental methods of hippie-style social communication were briefly popular, and by associating the younger characters (Jamie; Abbie; Julie) with punk music. Abbie, for example, had dyed her hair red. Also, Jamie is shown doing pogo-dancing, as was popular in clubs during the New Wave era of rock'n'roll music. Please note that New Wave encompasses synthopop, punk, gothic, and rockabilly music.
WHAT IS THE POINT. The style of this movie is, on occasion, quirky as is the movie NO EXIT, which is a dramatization of the play by Jean-Paul Sartre, and as is TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA by Richard Brautigan. The movie does a stunningly excellent job at depicting the human condition.Who needs Dostoevsky, when one can learn about the human condition in a way that is much more compelling from 20th CENTURY WOMEN??? Also, who needs to read Mark Twain, when one can learn about the human condition in a way that is much more captivating from 20th CENTURY WOMEN??? This movie never lets up, from start to finish, in its focused and compelling depictions of the
human condition, e.g., of the issue of mortality, of the issue of a parent being deeply attached to a child and yet perplexed and frustrated by the child's irresponsible and self-destructive behaviors, and on the issue of acquiring a spouse and then losing a spouse.
EXCERPTS FROM THE FIRST HALF HOUR. The story starts with a scene of an old Ford Galaxy burning in a parking lot in front of a supermarket. The mother (Bening) and her 15-year old son (Jamie) are in the supermarket, and they see their flaming car in front. Shortly after this, there is a flashback scene showing President Gerald Ford falling down a flight of steps (this was a famous incident). Then the soundtrack features the TALKING HEADS song, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE GOVERNMENT, which recites, "my building has every convenience." We see a 30 second episode where a support group of teenaged girls sit in a circle with their therapist. One girls says, "Why can't we just move on and be happy." Another girl says, "It makes me feel I'm not good enough . . . conflict with my dad." Then, the character Abbie makes her entrance. Abbie wears red-dyed hair in the punk style. Abbie had been treated for cervical cancer, and she survives. Mortality in this movie is depicted by Abbie's cervical cancer, where this issue is much more developed by Bening's character, and her realization that she will eventually die a couple of decades later on in life from lung cancer (because she loves to smoke cigarettes).
MORE PSYCHOLOGY. The script had many interesting observations on psychology, some of them amusing. In discussion between Julie and Jaimie, Julie says that, "Friends can't have sex, and still be friends." Julie and Jaimie have a mostly platonic relation in this movie, but once they did it in the backseat of a car, and later on Jaimie purchases a pregnancy kit from a drug store (much to the surprise of the drug store clerk), and Julie is found to be not pregnant.
The funniest episode about psychology comes at a party in the rooming house where Billy Crudup talks with the Abbie character. Billy Crudup talks 1960's hippie talk. He explains to her in earnest, "We're connected to the dirt because we come from the dirt, and the dirt is made from stars and stardust. So when you put your hands in the dirt you feel the Earth Mother." But Abbie is from the 1980's punk generation, and she responds by briefly laughing at the unexpectedly absurd hippie-talk coming from Billy Crudup's mouth. Unfortunately, some of the Amazon reviewers did not understand this particular bit of dialogue. That is understandable, because YOU NEED TO HAVE BEEN A TEENAGER OR AN ADULT DURING THE LATE 1960s, and have actually encountered this type of hippie-talk. If you have not actually heard this type of hippie-talk, then you will NOT UNDERSTAND THIS MOVIE.
Yet another very amusing and quirky episode with psychology occurs where Bening and Billy Crudup are discussing the ongoing problem of Jaimie's unpredictable behavior, such as playing a fainting game with his friends, listening to punk music, playing hookie from middle school (he is 15), and taking unannounced trips to Los Angeles or unannounced trips up the coast. "I think that Jaimie's energy is very unstable," says Crudup very seriously. Then Bening replies, commenting about Crudup's character in general, saying, "You don't have many funny lines, do you?"
In another engaging psychological episode, Annette Bening explains to her son, "Having your heart broken is a tremendous way to learn about the world."
The most lengthy psychological episode is about the breathing game, where Jaimie had to be rushed to the emergency room. "Jaimie, why would you do something so dangerous," demands Bening. "I don't know . . . I mean everyone was doing it," he explains. "So you just went along with it?" demands the mother. "It looked like fun," says the son. "That's just dumb, why would you do something so stupid? You know you almost died!!!" "You don't need to worry about me," replies Jaimie, who is becoming annoyed with his mother. "JAIMIE!!!! WHAT IS GOING ON??? WHY DID YOU HURT YOURSELF," demands the mother. But the son responds, "Why do you smoke yourself to death??? Hey, why are you fine being sad and alone?" Bening is quite rattled and flustered by her son's response, and she says, "I . . . uh . . . I . . . ugh . . . You can't talk to me like that," she says in response to her son's aggressive attack on her own weaknesses. In the next scene, Bening is alone in her bedroom, crying to herself. The background music plays a recording of crooner music from the 1930s, where the crooner sings, "You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss . . . as time goes by." Thus, one of the several themes in this movie is nostalgia for the cultural and behavioral values acquired early in life. This particular theme is NOT exactly the same as the issue of the so-called, Generation Gap. This movie has several themes, but the so-called Generation Gap is not one of these themes (in my opinion, the concept Generation Gap was invented by journalists to attract more customers).
It's difficult for me to explain the concepts behind my loving this film...there's no hero, no action scenes or spectacular effects, no grand world changing event to base a blockbuster movie on...it's just about people, and that makes it great all by itself...these people are regular, not incredibly talented, not geniuses, not oppressed or in trouble, just...people sharing a house and sharing their lives and helping a mom to raise her son and to become a good man...and it is so much, so intimate, so personal, so intimate, heartwarming and heartbreaking, that every single minute of it made me feel like i knew them and was there...i don't think it's possible to have found a better cast to play those parts, and at the end when each actor tells you the future of their characters lives, we're given a summary of each, and that was brilliant and sad and joyful, and painful...just as it is in real life and that's what made this great as well...
If i were to ever write a movie script or a book about ordinary people and their lives i'm not sure if i would want to give them the future these characters were given, not all of them, but that's life isn't it? we don't always or even often get to make those choices. Perhaps that was the point.
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Audio: anglais /allemand, sous-titres : allemand
Bonus : commentaire audio du réalisateur, Making-of, interviews
Le tout est très intéressant.
C’est un plaisir de revoir ce film, chronique sensible et nostalgique qui traite des thèmes souvent problématiques à l’époque, autour de l’éducation d’un ado élevé par sa mère célibataire. Cette dernière (Annette Benning) demande à ses pensionnaires, le bricoleur (Billy Crudup) et une jeune punk (Greta Gerwig) et à son amie (Elle Fanning) de l’aider dans cette tâche ardue. Les acteurs sont tous merveilleux, drôles, sensibles et justes. La bande son est excellente. Un film à voir.