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Mike Mills’ 20th Century Women is an emotionally vibrant film about a teenage boy in Santa Barbara circa 1979 and the women who surround him. Concerned about her son’s well-being, his mother (a stunning Annette Bening) calls on her boarder (Greta Gerwig) and her son’s best friend (Elle Fanning) to help raise him. It’s a semi-autobiographical piece for Mills, featuring a Talking Heads-heavy punk soundtrack. Reviewing the film for The A.V. Club, A.A. Dowd wrote that the director “exhibits an insatiable curiosity about his characters’ interests, from their hobbies to their favorite music to their preferred brand of smokes.”