With Beginners, filmmaker and graphic artist Mike Mills has created a thoughtful, joyous and tender film about love, romance, loss and life in all its messiness and beauty.
Ewan McGregor stars as Oliver, a single late 30-something who meets and falls in love with the beguiling and cheeky Anna (Melanie Laurent), only months after his father Hal (Christopher Plummer) has passed away.
This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father who, after the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet to live a wonderfully full gay life. The upheavals of Hal’s honesty brought father and son together. Now Oliver endeavours to love Anna with all the bravery, humour and hope that his father taught him.
Beginners darts, dreams and dances with inspired ideas, transforming this romantic comedy into a profound and enchanting portrait of what life is all about. When it comes to love, we’re all beginners.
Click Here to view the trailer.
Thanks to Hopscotch Films, we have a special preview screening of Beginners at Greater Union Manuka on Wednesday August 17th at 6:30pm.
Click Here to RSVP for your double pass for the screening. Tickets are strictly limited.
