On almost any other year, Annette Bening would be looking forward to the Academy Awards, safe in the knowledge she has a nomination to her name, such is the magnetism of her performance in
Bening then discussed why she wanted to work with Mills, the beauty to imperfection – and how her own upbringing compared to that of the one we see within this indelible production.
Synopsis
In 1979 Santa Barbara, Calif., Dorothea Fields is a determined single mother in her mid-50s who is raising her adolescent son, Jamie, at a moment brimming with cultural change and rebellion. Dorothea enlists the help of two younger women — Abbie, a free-spirited punk artist living as a boarder in the Fields’ home and Julie, a savvy and provocative teenage neighbor — to help with Jamie’s upbringing.
20th Century Women is released on February 10th, and you can read our 4* review of the film here.