Lost in History: The Banal and the Profound in '20th Century Women'

Mike Mills' film assembles an array of outsider characters – loosely associated with a range of epochs and social movements – and places them in the bygone milieu of late 1970s California. Exploring what the film has to say about history and the individual's place within it, Ella Donald considers the stories we tell and the human desire to assign meaning.

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New & Notable, middle years, senior secondary, feminism, punk, the Depression, hippie culture, America, United States, Annette Bening, Greta Gerwig