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Inspired and confused by his father's determination to find true love at last, Oliver tentatively pursues his own romance.Beginners is a 2010 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills. Oliver, a graphic artist, is coming to grips with the imminent death of his father, who, at 75, has one last secret: He's gay. 2011 R 1h 44m Blu-ray / DVD.

15 notes.Director: Mike Mills. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 44 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life which included a younger boyfriend.cinemafilm stillsmike millsfilm: beginnersfav <3beginners moviebeginners filmbeginners 2011christopher plummerewan mcgregor See all. Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away.

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Create effects like green screen, pictureinpicture, or split screen and play them back instantly. Work with multiple 4K video clips. Joins the Junebug Hall of Fame for exquisite modesty.iMovie delivers a tour de force on iPad Pro. Told through a series of flashbacks and personal archival footage, Beginners gives us the story of Oliver (Ewan McGregor), a 38-year-old graphic designer from Los Angeles, and his two parents across three timeframes.Tactful, tender, and generous, rich in humor and characterization. A subtle, intricate, and life-affirming romantic comedy about a father and son finding love. Screenplay: Mike Mills.Beginners.

Their cumulative effect is charming but also enigmatic. Its freewheeling but far-from-arbitrary montage breaks up scenes of carefully observed behavior with inserts of stock footage, still lifes, and archival snapshots. Beginners cuts often to pure fields of yellow, green, purple, or red, one of many ways it spruces up the viewing experience and even brightens the room. That's what happens when your dolorous main character, Oliver (Ewan McGregor), is an illustrator, but it's also what happens when your writer-director is Mike Mills, a soul both melancholic and exuberant, an artist who does not confuse sorrow with gloom.

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That's a lot of dying, a lot of heartbreak, especially for a movie that feels neither lugubrious nor manically insistent upon repudiating bad feelings. Their complementary but differently-sourced sorrows bond them but also challenge that bond. In the third, following Hal's succumbing to cancer, a still-grieving, somewhat shell-shocked Oliver, who's hardly a firecracker at the rosiest of times, meets a moonish but warm-hearted French actress named Anna (MГ©lanie Laurent) and attempts a relationship with her. In another, following Georgia's death, her septuagenarian widower Hal (Christopher Plummer) comes out as gay, attracts a young and doting boyfriend (Goran Visnjic), and embraces an identity and community that he largely denied himself through several decades of an unusual but happy marriage. In one, young Oliver begins growing up, largely under the watch of his free-thinking, fond, somewhat mysterious mother Georgia (Mary Page Keller), who chaperones him to art galleries and teaches him to drive and enlists him into 10-second performances where he pretends to die wherever he is sitting.

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(Mills's key collaborator in this department is Olivier Bugge CouttГ©, the Dane who is also responsible for Joachim Trier's adventurously-assembled dramas.) One reason is that, despite significant temperamental disparities among the main characters and among their plotlines, comparable currents of rue, curiosity, sensitivity, and introspection permeate each strand of the picture. But Beginners does not feel that way I'm a fairly craft-conscious spectator, but I don't sit there admiring the resonance or timing of this movie's cuts, although they are crafty indeed. Even having started with a script this jewel-cut, tender, funny, and emotionally generous, such a story could easily feel bogged down in serial transitions among the ostensible love story and the two dramas of grief and bewilderment, maternal and paternal, which Mills also treats as love stories. The whole film feels like one film, where it might have felt bitty or cross-hatched with palpable seams. The whole ensemble feels beautifully enmeshed, each member somehow present to the other even when they share no scenes. (It works, I promise.) The movie also feels like it's hugging you, even as it poses daunting interpersonal quandaries and conjures disconsoling thoughts of the ephemeral, the disappointed, the never-explained.One amazing dimension of Beginners is how it sustains its three primary threads, each predicated on the absence of central characters in the other, and yet it doesn't play as a 'multiple-timeline' movie, because the emotional timbre is so consistent and rich.

Its inclusive vision of life is all the more remarkable because it sees every character in such peculiar, specific detail. So many movies, and not just movies, partition characters firmly by age bracket, romanticizing or vilifying children, lampooning or sentimentalizing the aged. Oliver seems to credit him as well, but is so suffused with present- and past-tense questions about his parents and himself that he can't always get outside his own headВ—the very thing Hal has coached himself to do and which he strongly wishes for his son. Anna will later admire him for this choice, without ever meeting him. Hal opts for joy and communitarian bonhomie, even at the risk of occasional denial or deception. It is, however, a story about the young, the middle-aged, and the elderly facing more similar tests of conviction and of happiness than we often concede, and choosing their responses from a common set of alternatives.

Unknowable mothers are typically approached in American movies as problems, especially if they act strangely in public or speak to their youngsters as if they were adults. As Oliver's mother, Mary Page Keller has fewer scenes, but in her way she's as remarkable as Plummer is, her attention seized by things you might not notice, her manner casual about things you'd expect to trouble her. That's rarer in movies than it should be, especially in stories like this one. He delivers all his dialogue as though he means precisely what he's saying his lines are not placeholders for life lessons, or holistic bromides about the right way for everyone to be. Because he is written so well and because Plummer performs him with clear-eyed complexity as well as devilish glee, Hal is not a paragon, a personified Spirit of Life. Still less are they archetypes.

In 20th Century Women, teenaged Jamie keeps attempting to explain his mother's many quiddities by telling anyone who will listen, 'She was raised during the Depression.' Oliver is too mature, in multiple senses, to resort to such catch-all rationales, but he still seems fitfully curious whether personality in general or in singular cases can be explained via historical zeitgeistsВ—not because he seems truly convinced by this logic, but because he's casting about for any trace of expository consolation, wherever he might find some. In retrospect, then, Beginners's quick-cut montages that evoke historical events and ambient environments from the characters' various pasts look like Mills trademarks, maybe even like affectations, but I think they do important work. Rewatched today, Beginners itself feels like a small-orchestra rehearsal for that movie's symphonic exploration of kinship, history, desire, temporality, creativity, and regret. She's a dry-run in a way for the character Annette Bening would play so exquisitely in Mills's next film, 20th Century Women, based even more forwardly on his own mother.

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