This is not a grief-stricken memory piece, but a ruminative and agitated reflection on life.
The story is a memory piece in which the action is recalled by the narrator-protagonist after 50 years.
The violinist Todd Reynolds offered "September Canons," a piece written, Mr. Marshall says in a program note, as "a memory piece for the events of Sept. 11".
(Jeannette Catsoulis) 'Beginners' (R, 1 45) Mike Mills wrote and directed this wistful memory piece about a straight son (Ewan McGregor) and his dying gay father (Christopher Plummer, charming and seductive).
'Beginners' (R, 1 45) Mike Mills wrote and directed this wistful memory piece about a straight son (Ewan McGregor) and his dying gay father (Christopher Plummer, charming and seductive).
(Manohla Dargis) 'Beginners' (R, 1 45) Mike Mills wrote and directed this wistful memory piece about a straight son (Ewan McGregor) and his dying gay father (Christopher Plummer, charming and seductive).
The movie is in many ways a memory piece, but the actors imbue it with the venturesome fluidity of adolescent aspirations and emotions.
(Neil Genzlinger)20110623 'Beginners' (R, 1 45) Mike Mills wrote and directed this wistful memory piece about a straight son (Ewan McGregor) and his dying gay father (Christopher Plummer, charming and seductive).
"That Night" is a memory piece, recounting a neighborhood teen-age romance/feud on Long Island in the early, pre-Pill, pre-sixties sixties.
The film, set in the early 1940's, is a likable rites-of-passage memory piece doused in period nostalgia, including the prominent use of vintage Movietone newsreels to mark the events of World War II.
