In 1979 Santa Barbara, California, 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 neighbour – to help with Jamie's upbringing.
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Greta didn't write this so I wasn't sure if I was going to get the full Gerwig experience but as soon as she said she was going to be late on rent I knew I was in the clear
greta gerwig: "menstruation"
me: Acting is an activity in which a story is told by means of its enactment by an actor or actress who adopts a character—in theatre, television, film, radio, or any other medium that makes use of the mimetic mode
If there’s one thing that history teaches us time and time again, it’s that the past makes us feel like experts and the future makes us look like fools — we think we know where we’re going because we know where we’ve been. But it often doesn’t work out like that. At the end of the day, the world is something that you have to experience for yourself, even if it can take a movie like “20th Century Women” to help make that clear.
To quote a magenta-haired photographer named Abbie (Greta Gerwig), who probably never suspected she’d spend the summer of 1979 shuffling between the California boarding house where she’s staying and the hospital where she’s being treated for…
that greta gerwig menstruation scene is top ten of the decade it's just that powerful
As the decade is coming to a close I’m trying to catch up on a few hidden gems that I missed for whatever reason, this being a huge one.
20th Century Women is awkward at times with it’s pacing and dialogue. Certain conversations last as much as 3 lines and end there. It feels a little all over the place and I think that’s what I love. It works as a collection of details that, in some way, shape someone in the scene. The moments that shape you aren’t those that feel like that’s their main purpose, it’s those moments of true impulsiveness. This movie makes me want to make dumb decisions and get my shit together at the same time!
watching this movie feels like being hugged for two hours while the person hugging you runs their fingers through your hair and hums a melody in your ear
To my mother, who likely has no inkling that Letterboxd even exists because she’s happily retired on a farm in rural Ohio— thank you.
For working 16 hour days to give us the best possible life. For telling me at 8 years old I could buy 100 Ferraris after my dad told me I would never be able to afford one. For letting me rent The Matrix: Reloaded even though I was probably too young to watch it. For telling me The Cranberries was the best band of the 90s and to not let anyone tell me differently. For stopping at every lemonade stand we saw during the summer because “you always stop at a lemonade stand.” For making me…
Is it possible to be in love with a movie? Like, actually in love? Cause I am.
There should be a much bigger culture organized around appreciating and not forgetting this movie. A key text for lost boys raised by women.
