Beginners

Beginners

  • Director: Mike Mills
  • Countries of origin: United States
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: June 9, 2011
  • Sound mix: Dolby Digital, DTS
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Lính Mới
  • "Beginners" is a feature film produced by Focus Company in 2011. The film was directed by Mike Mills and co-starred by Ewan McGregor , Christopher Plummer and Mélanie Laurent . The film was first screened at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 11, 2010 .
    The film tells that Oliver's father, Hal, promotes two news: the first is that he has an incurable disease, and the second is that he finally plans to come out, bringing great changes to Oliver's life   . At the same time Oliver must also seriously face his relationship with his girlfriend.

    Details

    • Release date June 9, 2011
    • Filming locations Biltmore Hotel - 506 S. Grand Avenue, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production companies Olympus Pictures, Parts and Labor, Northwood Productions (II)

    Box office

    Budget

    $3,200,000 (estimated)

    Gross US & Canada

    $5,790,894

    Opening weekend US & Canada

    $141,340

    Gross worldwide

    $14,311,701

    Movie reviews

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    • By Bennie 2022-04-21 09:02:21

      it gets better

      There are often things with the symbol of the era in the film, what was this era like, and what has become after that.
      If homosexuality was acceptable in the 1930s and 1940s, if it was not considered a pathological condition in universal values, and there was no need to fix it, the 44-year marriage would not have happened in the first place.
      If there is no marriage in the first place, the father does not need to suppress his nature for nearly half a century, and he almost became a...

    • By Michel 2022-04-21 09:02:21

      Not thrilling, but must be warm enough

      What does a rich and fluid person look like? There was a river flowing in his heart, and when he walked, the river seemed to flow with him. If I say that this film gives me this feeling, you will not believe me, but it doesn't matter, this is not a serious film review after all, and I often don't bother to write serious things.

      It was the performances of the two protagonists that made me feel up and down. Their emotions were obviously not exposed, they were about to die, and they made...

    • By Christina 2022-04-20 09:01:44

      between homosexuality and heterosexuality

      There's a movie that makes me not really sure about the message the movie is trying to convey, it seems like the movie is intentionally allowing you to have a lot of ideas, or it's just rambling. In the past, when writing essays, the teacher told us to have a central idea and then write around it. Although it sounds dogmatic, it does make sense. The same is true for the composition and the film. The film is made to convey information to the audience, and it is the information that has been...

    • By Letha 2022-04-20 09:01:44

      love is an empathy

      This film is rather literary.
      It belongs to the petty bourgeoisie with X.
      There are many kinds of love for us to comprehend,
      and in all kinds of love, in fact, we are all the Beginners.

      Maybe it is because of recent studies,
      so we can’t help but analyze it in psychology, and we can’t help it!

      His father is gay, but he married his mother because of the secular world.
      The mother is half Jewish, strong, independent and interesting, and even accepts the...

    • By Ottilie 2022-04-20 09:01:44

      adult toddler

      Affected by the previous publicity, I thought that the title of "Beginner" was referring to Oliver's father who came out of the closet. My impression was probably that he would talk about how the old guy would really spend the rest of his life after he came out of the closet, but this is not the case. The film takes the old guy's death as the origin, and mainly tells about Oliver's psychological state after his father came out to him, interspersed with his childhood memories of his parents....

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    • By Junior 2023-03-24 22:19:35

      In fact, Oliever's biggest problem is that he has no ideas, he can't think about things from the perspective of others, he can't understand what his father wants at the end of his life, and he can't understand what Anna wants. In the end, Anna took the initiative to return, and kept asking what happens now? But he has a good mother, and makes you uncle and I involuntarily...

    • By Itzel 2023-01-22 18:48:43

      I didn't expect it to be so small and fresh, I want to see people who suck their...

    • By Hubert 2022-12-25 09:10:38

      Seeing that I have too many emotions to express. Ivan is a handsome, delicate and melancholy man. Ivan and Anna and Dad are our little microcosms. The story is plain, true, and delicate. It's hard to say what the meaning is, but because of this story, this is the memory of each of us starting anew as a Beginner. Arthur is really the dog of the...

    • By Jarvis 2022-12-08 14:53:20

      The original soundtrack is so good, the heroine is so beautiful, it feels so good to watch the movie while drawing pictures, I miss it so much~~ The dual screen is so cool~~ Oh, it's so...

    • By Christiana 2022-10-22 17:17:24

      Ivan is so handsome...and another handsome British...

    Movie plot

    70-year-old Hal ( Christopher Plummer ) was widowed and told his son Oliver ( Ewan McGregor ) that he was actually gay. Hal, who "wants to experience another self", had a young boyfriend and had a passion. The gay life is overflowing, and the "new life" father has a funny and moving life. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with cancer in a short time. After experiencing the great changes in life, father and son are getting closer and...
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    Actor selection

    After deciding on the tone of the film, Mills needed to find suitable actors to play the father and son in the film, and then thought of Ewan McGregor and the old actor Christopher Plummer. So he wrote an email to the two actors and invited them to star in the movie. In the invitation letter to Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, Mills told the story and details of the film in detail, as well as his understanding and cognition of...
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    Evaluation action

    The story itself can be expressed very dramatic, but the whole film feels calm and calm. The character’s attitude towards life is also completely consistent with the director’s shooting attitude. The film comes from the director’s real life, so he tries to move the audience with his personal experience. The two emotional lines in the film intersect each other and influence each other. In the family environment since childhood, they...
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    Movie quotes

    • Anna: You can ask me anything.

      Oliver: Anything? What's that there?

      Anna: That's a tree.

      Oliver: Yeah.

      Anna: And Cars.

      Oliver: Uh-huh.

      Anna: Another building like this one.

      Oliver: Right.

      Anna: People in the building like us. Half of them think things will never work out. The other half believe in magic. It's like a war between them.

      Oliver: How do you know so much about people?

      Anna: Oh. Well, you have to learn how to read their faces.

    • Hal: Well, let's say...

      Oliver: Arthur, down!

      Hal: ...let's say since you were little, and... and you... you always dreamed of... of someday getting a lion, and you wait and you wait and you wait and you wait, and the lion doesn't come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.

      Oliver: I'd wait for the lion.

      Hal: That's why I worry about you.

    • Anna: I used to love hotels. Now I'm always in a new apartment or in another hotel somewhere.

      Oliver: How do you keep hold of friends? Or boyfriends?

      Anna: Makes it very easy to end up alone. To leave people.

      Oliver: You can stay in the same place and still find ways to leave people.