“20th Century Women” and “Julieta”

It’s 1979, and everything is in flux. Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power in Iran; Margaret Thatcher becomes the British Prime Minister; and, in Santa Barbara, Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) invites a squad of firemen to a party. Her son, Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann), aged fifteen, points out that only she would do such a thing, but to her it seems quite natural. Earlier in the day, when her car—in fact, her ex-husband’s Ford Galaxy—burst into flames in a parking lot, the firemen extinguished the blaze, so what better way to give thanks for services rendered?