{"id":2199,"date":"2011-12-31T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T15:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2011-12-31T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:14:00","slug":"number-7-beginners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2199","title":{"rendered":"Number 7- BEGINNERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?attachment_id=2200\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2200\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Beginners-195x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"12-31-11 Beginners\" width=\"195\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Beginners-195x300.jpg 195w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Beginners-400x615.jpg 400w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Beginners-439x675.jpg 439w, https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/12-31-11-Beginners.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 195px) 100vw, 195px\" \/><\/a>Director Mike Mills\u2019 second feature in 5 years is based on his own experiences with his father.  If it wasn\u2019t based on truth, you\u2019d think that the story was a Hollywood creation.  In the lovely \u201cBeginners\u201d following the death of his wife of forty some years, the 75 year old Hal Fields (the Oscar shoe-in Christopher Plummer) decides to come out of the closet and live an openly gay life.  This unnerves his son, Oliver (Ewan McGregor), who has relationship and intimacy problems of his own.  And things get really complicated when his father gets a young boyfriend.  Mills structure smarty sets the story after the death of Hal and uses flashback extremely well to tell three stories from Oliver\u2019s perspective.  We learn about: (1) the history of Oliver\u2019s mother and father; (2) we get a taste of Hal\u2019s unusual gay life and ultimate death; and (3) we experience Oliver\u2019s on again off again struggles to find love with an actress (played by M\u00e9lanie Laurent).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/?p=2195\"><strong>Next: Number 6 &#8211; MONEYBALL<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best of 2011 continues&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","has-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyfilmfix.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}