#mélanie laurent

Decided to watch something lighter, something more enjoyable, so, I’ve watched “Beginners” – it’s a movie with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer, which’s labelled on Wikipedia as “romantic comedy-drama” and it seems true. (Probably, Spoilers!) Main character’s (Oliver’s) father after his mother’s death comes out as gay, joins different clubs, of course, pride group, goes on parties and lives an active life and dies in four years. The main character himself always observed his parents’ relationship and noticed how “cold” they are and now he has problems with his own love life. A few months after his father’s death he met a “weird girl” (by her own words), an actress, started relationships with her, and even believing that it won’t work out, they try to build them and stay together and enjoy each other’s company. The whole movie has a very clever cut – it’s shown through flashback and non-linear storytelling. Oliver is constantly telling us different dates, showing and describing pictures – telling history. The whole theme of the movie is very interesting, we very rarely see LGBTQ+ elderly in media, especially rarely we see them happy. I also realized that I thought that young Christopher Plummer and old Christopher Plummer are two different people… P.S. The movie includes a very cute Jack Russell dog, with whom everybody talks and he talks back.