A Single Man

Director: Tom Ford
Writer: Tom Ford, David Scearce
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult
Theatrical Release Date: December 11, 2009
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
Criticwire: B
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Synopsis: In his first feature film, Ford continues along this rich and aesthetically complex pathway, using the recent history of the photographic image to tell a story both historical and bracingly contemporary. The setting is Southern California and our moment in time is officially the early sixties. We meet George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay college professor, as he learns that his lover Jim (Matthew Goode) has died in a car wreck. Grief overwhelms him, and his “invisible status” in society begins to close in again. Suicide seems the best way out. But a mad night with Charley (Julianne Moore), his best girlfriend from England, and the unexpected attentions of an angora-sweater-clad young man make George think twice. [Synopsis courtesy of TIFF]

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indiewire review:

REVIEW | Depth in Beauty: Tom Ford's "A Single Man"

Directed by former Gucci creative director Tom Ford, "A Single Man" has a few of the qualities you’d expect from a fashion designer’s first film. On a superficial level, nearly every frame is highly styled to the point where it would not seem out of place printed in Italian Vogue (it may be too visually esoteric for the North Ameri... MORE »