FLICS: Beginners

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FLICS: Beginners
March 30, 2012

7:30 PM (Doors Open 7:00 PM)

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Admission is $5.00 per ticket at the door.

Film Lovers International Cinema Society present "Beginners." Dir. Mike Mills, US, 2011, 105 min, R BEGINNERS is a comedy/drama about how deeply funny and transformative life can be, even at its most serious moments. This film imaginatively explores the hilarity, confusion and surprises of love through the evolving consciousness of Oliver (Ewan McGregor). Oliver meets the irreverent and unpredictable Anna after a long history of failed romantic relationships. This new love floods Oliver with memories of his father Hal (Christopher Plummer), who, following the death of his wife of 45 years, came out of the closet at age 75 to live a full, energized and wonderfully tumultuous gay life—which included a younger boyfriend. The upheavals of Hal's new honesty, by turns funny and moving, brought father and son closer than they'd ever been able to be. Now Oliver endeavors to love Anna with all the bravery, humor and hope that his father taught him. At once deeply personal and universal, Beginners was inspired by writer/director Mike Mills' own father and is meant in turn to inspire everyone weighing their chances and choices in life and love. In English with closed captions.