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Movie Blurb by Shale
July 1, 2011
Even tho I will see every brainless Sci-Fi Action flick this summer, I can still appreciate a good, well-made movie. This movie was written by director Mike Mills and it is based on events of his own life. This comes thru visually as a labor of love.
The hook for me was in the trailers when I saw the relationship between Oliver (Ewan McGregor) and his father Hal (Christopher Plummer). The movie is non-linear but easy to follow, going from Oliver's childhood memories, to the recent memories of his father coming out as gay after his mother's death and to the present realities (and again memories of recent past). Sounds confusing but it is so well done you keep up.
It actually opens on Oliver cleaning out his father's home after his death, but immediately we get the whole story leading up to this thru flashbacks of one period or another. It is fresh, fast and informative as images from that past flash in still fotos on the screen as if seen by a graphic artist, which Oliver & Mills are.
Oliver as Mike Mills
There are glimpses of Oliver as a child (Keegan Boos) with his mother, (Mary Page Keller) who is fun and theatrical in nature. Oliver picks up even then that there is something missing in the relationship of his mother and father, who stayed married for 44 years. After his mother dies, his father at 75 comes out. Shortly after that the father is fighting incurable cancer, but for a brief few years finds Andy (Goran Visnjic) a young man who loves him.
Andy & Hal - Beginning
Meanwhile, Oliver with a track record of scuttling many serious relationships meets Anna (Melanie Laurent) at a party and they are immediately drawn to each other.
Anna & Oliver - Beginning
Oh, nearly forgot the other main character, Arthur, Hal's Jack Russell Terrier, who has a few lines in subtitles and is Oliver's interim companion after his father's death. Don't worry, like everything else in this movie, the dog is cute but not too cute and the few subtitles work.
Oliver & Arthur - Beginning
Well, as you can tell I really liked this movie and would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good story of love between a son and his father, a daddy and his boy, a man and a woman and a boy and his dog. Great movie.
Movie Blurb by Shale
July 1, 2011
Even tho I will see every brainless Sci-Fi Action flick this summer, I can still appreciate a good, well-made movie. This movie was written by director Mike Mills and it is based on events of his own life. This comes thru visually as a labor of love.
The hook for me was in the trailers when I saw the relationship between Oliver (Ewan McGregor) and his father Hal (Christopher Plummer). The movie is non-linear but easy to follow, going from Oliver's childhood memories, to the recent memories of his father coming out as gay after his mother's death and to the present realities (and again memories of recent past). Sounds confusing but it is so well done you keep up.
It actually opens on Oliver cleaning out his father's home after his death, but immediately we get the whole story leading up to this thru flashbacks of one period or another. It is fresh, fast and informative as images from that past flash in still fotos on the screen as if seen by a graphic artist, which Oliver & Mills are.
Oliver as Mike Mills
There are glimpses of Oliver as a child (Keegan Boos) with his mother, (Mary Page Keller) who is fun and theatrical in nature. Oliver picks up even then that there is something missing in the relationship of his mother and father, who stayed married for 44 years. After his mother dies, his father at 75 comes out. Shortly after that the father is fighting incurable cancer, but for a brief few years finds Andy (Goran Visnjic) a young man who loves him.
Andy & Hal - Beginning
Meanwhile, Oliver with a track record of scuttling many serious relationships meets Anna (Melanie Laurent) at a party and they are immediately drawn to each other.
Anna & Oliver - Beginning
Oh, nearly forgot the other main character, Arthur, Hal's Jack Russell Terrier, who has a few lines in subtitles and is Oliver's interim companion after his father's death. Don't worry, like everything else in this movie, the dog is cute but not too cute and the few subtitles work.
Oliver & Arthur - Beginning
Well, as you can tell I really liked this movie and would recommend it for anyone who enjoys a good story of love between a son and his father, a daddy and his boy, a man and a woman and a boy and his dog. Great movie.
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