Description

A Single Man 2009
1h 39m | Drama, Romance | 11 December 2009 (USA)
Storyline:An English professor, one year after the sudden death of his boyfriend, is unable to cope with his typical days in 1960s Los Angeles.Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for some disturbing images and nudity/sexual contentUser review:Tom Ford’s debut has an immediate effect and an after effect. We are taken immediately by the “preciousness” of the image. Limpid, exquisite and slightly detached. The after effect is a whole other story. Colin Firth’s face comes to haunt you. His pain and his deep period of reflection has a powerful, contagious effect. Colin Firth creates a character that contains a doses of his D’Arcy of Pride and Prejudice and a pinch of his Adrian LeDuc of Apartment Zero but the rest is totally inedited. His middle age man that spends a day drowning in a memory that tortures him has a resonance that touches countless personal memories. Love without other implications, because love is all there is. I applauded until my hands hurt when I found out that Firth had won the Copa Volpi at the 2009 Venice Film Fest for this role. This was so richly deserved. I doubt I’ll see a better performance this year. Bravo!
Director: Tom Ford
Writers: Christopher Isherwood (novel), Tom Ford (written for the screen by), David Scearce (written for the screen by)
Stars: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode
Country of origin: United States
Languages: English, Spanish
Filming locations: Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park – 10700 W. Escondido Canyon Rd., Agua Dulce, California, USA
IMDB Profile tt1315981