When it comes to relationships, we’re all beginners.
Beginners imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion, and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver. Only months after his father Hal Fields has passed away Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna.
This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father, who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized, and wonderfully tumultuous gay life – which included a younger boyfriend, Andy. The upheavals of Hal’s new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they’d ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavours to love Anna with all the bravery, humour, and hope that his father taught him.
At once deeply personal and universal, Beginners was inspired by director Mike Mills’ own father and is meant in turn to inspire everyone weighing their chances and choices in life and love.
Written & Directed by Mike Mills / Drama / 105 min. / 2011 /
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