Mills, a former music video director and graphic designer has a wry, playful visual approach (including a dog that communicates via subtitles) to some weightier existential quandaries about the lies we tell ourselves in order to live. All of this is contrasted with Oliver's own sweet romance with the nymphish Anna. ![]() ![]() A tenderly forlorn Ewan McGregor plays the Mills stand-in, Oliver, who is dealing with his father's recent passing and haunted by childhood memories of his parents' strained relationship and his father's joyful life as a septuagenarian gay man. ![]() Many people will know director Mike Mills from last year's 20th Century Women, which featured a downright incandescent Annette Bening who was robbed of an Oscar nomination (though that's neither here nor there), however you may be unaware that that was a follow-up to Beginners, the semi-autobiographical story of his father's late-in-life coming out and subsequent blossoming.
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