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FEB. 3 BLACK VIOLIN Violin virtuosos, Black Violin, play the California Center for the Arts, Escondido at 7:30 p.m. Feb. 2, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, in the Concert Hall, 340 N. Escondido Blvd., Escondido. Tickets are $20 to $40 at (800) 988-4253 or artcenter.org. ‘ON GOLDEN POND’ Vista’s Broadway Theater presents “On Golden Pond,” Wednesday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday at 1 p.m. Feb. 2 through Feb. 19 at 340 E. Broadway, Vista. Tickets are $23.50 by calling (760) 806-7905 or online at broadwayvista.com. BEST OF BROADWAY Purchase tickets online at itsmyseat.com/CHSChoral/ through Jan. 31 for Carlsbad High School’s “Night with the Stars’ benefit concert Feb. 2 and Feb. 3. The evening begins at 7 p.m. with the competitive show choir, also featuring Encore, the women’s intermediate show choir; Sound Express, the advanced mixed show choir and guest performances by middle school show choirs. Advanced reserved seating tickets are $15 online and at the box office. Student, faculty, and staff tickets are $7 at the box office. FEB. 4 NAVY QUINTET The First Sunday Music Series presents a free concert with the Navy Band Southwest Woodwind Quintet from 2 to 3 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Encinitas Library, 540 Cornish Drive, Encinitas. For more information, call (760) 753-7376 or visit encinitaslibfriends.orgART RECEPTION The Del Mar Art Gallery will host an opening reception of Art Springs Eternal, from 5 to 8 p.m. Feb. 4 at Del Mar Plaza, 1555 Camino Del Mar, Suite 314, Del Mar. SOUL FUSION MiraCosta College is kicking off Black History Month with the Umoja soul fusion concert at 4 p.m. Feb. 4 in Concert Hall OC2406, Oceanside Campus, 1 Barnard Drive, Oceanside. General admission: $10; VIP $20. Tickets can be purchased at miracosta. edu. WONDERFUL WEAVING The Art of Basket Weaving. Coil a basket around an unusual stone center from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb. 4 at Art Lounge on 101, 816 S. Coast Highway 101. For more information, visit http://artloungeon101.com/ or call (858) 442-8666. Cost is $55 plus $37 materials fee (pay instructor in class). LCC ART FEST La Costa Canyon High School presents a day showcasing art from several departments at its first Maverick TURN TO ARTS CALENDAR ON A16
try and reach him. She’s so afraid she is failing her son that she emboldens these very different women to be surrogate parents to him. More importantly than the thematic stuff, are just the performances, dialogue and characters. Mills creates such dynamic and original voices here, and Bening, Crudup, Zumann, Fanning and Gerwig are so deep inside the skins of these characters that all you want to do is hang out with them. There’s multiple scenes where they’re
By Jared Rasic
Dorothea Fields is a specific and contradictory type of free spirit. Played by Annette Bening, Fields has a shrewd smile and an open heart, viewing the world as a giant ball of mystery that becomes more unknowable with each passing year. Her 15-year-old son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), is in love with his best friend, the 17-yearold Julie (Elle Fanning), who thinks they’re too close to have sex. Dorothea is renting rooms in her dilapidated boardinghouse to a mellow and hurting handyman (Billy Crudup) and a punk/mod photographer (Greta Gerwig), both of whom are a little broken and desperate for real human connection. It’s the summer of 1979 in Santa Barbara, Calif., and everyone just wants the world to make sense, if even for just a few minutes. Most of the events these characters go through aren’t life changing or manifestly packed with profound drama. “20th Century Women” isn’t a film about the moments in our lives that change us or shape us into the people we will one day become. Instead, it’s about growing to know yourself with help from the people in your life, regardless of generational insecurities. “20th Century Women” is Mike Mills’ third feature as writer/director and he improves with leaps and bounds on each one. His first film, “Thumbsucker,” was a flawed, but ultimately powerful coming of age story about chemical dependency featuring the single finest performance ever of Keanu Reeves. “Beginners” was about a grown son accepting his aging father coming out. It was filled with wonderful work by Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Mills’ films are always filled with moments
all sitting around having breakfast and I realized I could watch a whole movie of them deciding between cereal and pancakes. “20th Century Women” is a simple and beautiful film. It’s probably a little too long and rambles a bit in the third act, but it’s a deeply felt and wholly original look at life from one of Hollywood’s most welcome voices. So many films are disposable bits of nothingness, but Dorothea Fields, her friends and her family are absolutely unforgettable.
Annette Bening plays Dorothea Fields in the film “20th Century Women,” written and directed by Mike Mills. Photo by Merrick Morton
of quiet power. His command of tone is so lovely, even though his films all could be described pejoratively as “Sundance Movies,” but there’s profound depth and meaning inside the quirk and humor. His characters sing in the way so many “gems” from Sundance Festival do not. Thematically, “20th Century Women” does a
good job laying ground in the way that three different generations of women react to and treat the men in their lives, whether they’re family, friends or potential lovers. Dorothea was raised in the Depression and desperately wants to understand her teenage son, but uses Julie and her punk renter to
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