Review of 20th Century Women (2016) by Dirigiblepulp — 17 Feb 2017
Santa Barbara in 1979 was a perfect little heaven of sunsets, palm trees and homey Americana right before corporatocracy sucked the life out of it, if this film is to be believed. It's a slice of golden nostalgia that's pretty damn irresistible.
There's no plot or resolutions in any generic sense. It's a small part of a remembered section from someone's past, its characters and setting a search for some understanding of where the changes in life began to take shape.
If all this seems a bit too rosy, it probably is, but in a way that's earnest and real. It's not so much nostalgia for its own sake as it is an understanding of how the small moments and the people inside them shape a life, if even subtly. In that sense this film is indeed rosy but not unnecessarily so.
The menstruation scene around the dinner table with Greta Gerwig is comic gold.
This review of 20th Century Women (2016) was written by Dirigiblepulp on 17 Feb 2017.
20th Century Women has generally received very positive reviews.
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