Review of Beginners (2011) by Seancriswell — 04 Aug 2012

There are few things I enjoy as much as a character driven drama. The problem always lies when there is little to no emotional payoff for the characters. For me that was definitely the case in Beginners.

I know Mcgregor and Plummer get the publicity, but the character I enjoyed the most in this film was played by Laurent. I think the biggest problem for me is that there were too many threads in this movie to properly give us enough exposition to have a satisfying payoff.

This movie was well acted, and the plot line between McGregor and Laurent did have a nice payoff. Past that, a bit of a jumbled mess for me.