Finding love with another is fairly common, finding love within yourself can be tremendously harder. In Starting Out In The Evening, an aging author finds excuse in indulging a young aspiring literary critic as she pens her graduate thesis on his oeuvre. While a stilted romance blooms between the two, his daughter gets caught up in her own misgivings about her two lovers and her trepidation for the future. Simultaneously endearing and platitudinous, an ambiguous lightness emerges through the duration of the film in this simple yet lovely story.