Her gyrating and instigating are beautifully fused in Mike Mills's 20th Century Women, in which she plays Abbie, a
soul - hungry Woody Woodpecker punkhead in a Lou Reed T - shirt who spazzes out to Talking Heads and the Clash, takes her teenage
roomie to the nearest mosh pit, and conducts a blunt tutorial on menstruation at a dinner party presided over by a squinty and supremely unamused Annette Bening (never greater).