The fall film festival season is always filled with movies that we’re pleasantly surprised to see announced, and we’re definitely excited that Mike Mills‘ “20th Century Women” will be making its World Premiere at the New York Film Festival. Six years have passed since the director’s lovely “Beginners,” and we’re eager to see what he’s cooked up for his movie that takes viewers to the late ’70s in Santa Barbara.
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Starring Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig, Elle Fanning, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup, the film follows a single mother raising her teenage son in a sprawling bohemian house, shared by an itinerant carpenter and a punk artist with a Bowie haircut, and frequented by her son’s rebellious friend. It certainly sounds like the mix of characters will provide a unique window to an exciting moment of American cultural history, and it promises to strike a chord with those familiar with the era.
“I was taken aback by ’20th Century Women,’ ” New York Film Festival Director and Selection Committee Chair Kent Jones said about the movie. “It’s made with an extraordinarily unusual level of craft and attention to detail, human and visual, which is now all but extinct. As someone who actually lived through 1979 in middle-class America, I will testify to the fact that Mike Mills and his remarkable cast approach the level of the uncanny. I felt like I was back there, with all the shared behaviors and worries, the divisions, the look and feel and smell of the world as it was.”
“20th Century Women” enters the Oscar when it premieres at NYFF, and opens on December 25th.