Beginners (2010 Mike Mills & scr)

Ewan McGregor and great dog (which at one point is subtitled "I understand 150 words but I don't speak") which belonged to dead gay father Christopher Plummer (won Oscar). Visually inventive film jumps around in time to good effect and charts progress of relationship with Mélanie Laurent (though what actually happens here is a bit murky and the film is a little anticlimactic). Still, a most interesting and successful film from a virtual Beginner himself (the not so good Thumbsucker in 2005 his only other feature). The mood reminds me of A Single Man with a bit of Wilbur wants to kill himself mixed in.