'Newbies', a beautiful and intimate history

Mike Mills, whom we had never heard mention unless we caught his filmography full of shorts and documentaries, and so you see, a feature film, "Thumbsucker", very well qualified in 2005, critics now surprises us with this film which, obviously, is film independent.

Independent cinema by the theme that focuses on, which is not normal and common in films of Hollywood, but, above all, by the peculiar way in which carries Mills, as screenwriter and director at the same time, this issue, making it a dose of sensibility and love for his characters is not common in the film American.

Tells us Mills, through a tight entreveramiento of times that are alternating the life of his central character, Oliver Fields in el presente, when he tells that his own story while carries el dog who was his father home, living at that time, lived a few years back with his father and, even pieces u000asignificant of his life when he was a child.

And what flows through your words, what we see of her life reveals, on the one hand, the intense love that came to feel by Hal Fields, his father, who, already widowed at the age of 75, revealed as a homosexual, and not only that, but decides, in spite of his age, to live actively and without hiding her status of person gay.

But, in addition, Mills tells him Oliver solitary life following the death of the father, he and his only company, the dog, and what happens when she meets Ana, he feels for her, the uncertainty felt in that relationship to known in love, perhaps thinking about what happened with his father, who knows if frightened thinking that it could happen to him so that HAL.

We repeat, is a very well run, well music film much better played by Ewan McGregor and Melanie Laurent, but, in particular, by the actor already 82 years Mr which continues to demonstrate its u000amajor category: Christopher Plummer.

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