It’s often said — and most often by people in relationships themselves — that no one can ever really know what happens between two people in love, or even those marking time in a marriage. And yet, in the case of a child or some otherwise invested third party, it is possible to be molded against a relationship so tightly that, once peeled away, one is left with a pretty good impression of its contours. In Beginners , Mike Mills’s loose, feeling, evidently highly personal portrait of grief’s ritual excavation of memory, Oliver (Ewan McGregor) is reevaluating the impression he formed of his parents’ marriage, and the shape he’s in as a result.
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At TIFF: Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer Bond in Bittersweet Beginners
