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Opera House Cinema Series to screen ‘20th Century Women’

Submitted Photo “20th  Century Women” will be shown Saturday, Feb. 4 and Tuesday, Feb. 7 at the Fredonia Opera House.

The next feature film in the Opera House Cinema Series is “20th Century Women,” starring Annette Bening.  It will be screened on Saturday, Feb. 4, and Tuesday, Feb. 7, at 7:30 p.m.

Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, “20th Century Women” also received Golden Globe nominations for Best Picture — Musical or Comedy and Best Actress for Bening. Written and directed by Mike Mills (“Beginners”), the film is semi-autobiographical, based on Mills’ childhood.

During the summer of 1979, a Santa Barbara single mom and boardinghouse landlord (Bening) decides the best way she can parent her teenage son (Lucas Jade Zumann) is to enlist her young tenants — a quirky punk photographer (Greta Gerwig), a mellow handyman (Billy Crudup) and her son’s shrewd best friend (Elle Fanning) – to serve as role models in a changing world.

Manohla Dargis, in the New York Times, calls the film “a funny, emotionally piercing story about a teenager and the women who raise him.” Ann Hornaday, in the Washington Post, calls it “a celebration of personal and social history. ’20th Century Women’ takes the audience back. But it also lifts us up on a wave of openhearted emotion and keen intelligence.” Joe Morgenstern, in the Wall Street Journal, calls it “something special.”  Anthony Lane, in The New Yorker, says “the movie belongs wholeheartedly to Bening, and to the age, come and gone, that she enshrines.”  Rated R for sexual material, language, some nudity and brief drug use, “20th Century Women” runs one hour, 59 minutes.

The Opera House Cinema Series is sponsored by Lake Shore Savings Bank. Tickets are available at the door for $7 (adults), $6.50 (seniors & Opera House members) and $5 (students) the night of each screening.  A book of 10 movie passes is available for $60 at the door or online at www.fredopera.org. For more information, call the Opera House Box Office at 679-1891.

The Opera House is equipped with individualized closed captioning headsets for the deaf as well as with assistive listening headsets for the hearing-impaired. Simply request one from any usher or Opera House staff member. Headset funding provided by Robert and Marilyn Maytum, the John Ben Snow Memorial Trust, the Dunkirk-Fredonia Lions Club, and by a grant from Theatre Development Fund’s TAP Plus program in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts.

The 1891 Fredonia Opera House is a member-supported not-for-profit performing arts center located in Village Hall in downtown Fredonia. For a complete schedule of events, visit www.fredopera.org.

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