Mike Mills, Joaquin Phoenix Molly Webster on Cmon Cmon, NYFF59

Director Mike Mills and actors Joaquin Phoenix and Molly Webster discuss C mon C mon, a Spotlight selection at NYFF59, with NYFF Director Eugene Hernandez. After gracing audiences with Beginners and 20th Century Women (NYFF54), writerdirector Mike Mills returns with another warm, insightful, and gratifyingly askew portrait of American family life. A soulful Joaquin Phoenix plays Johnny, a kindhearted radio journalist deep into a project in which he interviews children across the U. S. about our worlds uncertain future. His sister, Viv (a marvelously intuitive Gaby Hoffmann), asks him to watch her 9yearold son, Jesse (Woody Norman, in one of the most affecting breakout child performances in years), while she tends to the childs father, whos suffering from mental health issues. After agreeing, Johnny finds himself connecting with his nephew in ways he hadnt expected, ultimately taking Jesse with him on a journey from Los Angeles to New York to New Orleans. Anchored by three remarkable acto