For a gentle man who's lost his love, solitude has become a life sentence that simply must end. Firth makes that ache subtly, splendidly visible.
A Single Man (2009)
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Reviews Counted:12
Fresh:10
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.4/10
Genre: Dramas
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A SINGLE MAN is based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor...
A SINGLE MAN is based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
A SINGLE MAN is produced by Tom Ford through his Los Angeles based production company, Fade to Black, in association with Chris Weitz and Andrew Miano of Depth of Field, and Robert Salerno of Artina Films. The screenplay is written by Tom Ford and David Scearce. --© Weinsteins
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Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Ginnifer Goodwin
Director: Tom Ford
Director: Tom Ford
Screenwriter: Tom Ford, David Scearce
Producer: Andrew Miano, Robert Salerno, Chris Weitz
Studio: Weinstein Company
Reviews for A Single Man
Fashion designer Tom Ford establishes himself as a filmmaker to celebrate from the very first sequence of his artfully constructed, heartfelt adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's 1964 novel A Single Man.
In A Single Man, his debut effort as film director, fashion designer Tom Ford seems determined to err not on the side of caution, but on that of aesthetic overload instead.
A serious work that makes one question Tennyson's belief that "'tis better to have loved and lost/ Than never to have loved at all.'
The movie has a hushed, sensual intensity and formal elegance that leaves no doubt Ford knows what he's doing behind the camera.
Not only one of the best films of 2009, but one of the best gay-themed films ever...The most authentically detailed period film since 2002's "Far from Heaven"
Every frame in this film is visual perfection, capturing settings and characters with artistry that packs a real wallop
For better or worse (worse, if you ask me), A Single Man is precisely what you'd expect from fashion designer Tom Ford
Fashion designer Tom Ford makes a stylishly elegant debut with his effective adaptation of Isherwood's seminal, stream-of-consciousness tale of love and loss, featuring Colin Firth in a multi-nuanced, tonally perfect Oscar-caliber turn.
The clothes, the cars, the furniture -- Los Angeles of the early '60s offers Ford a chance to be gleefully fetishistic about his set pieces, embracing a moment when modern design had reached an undeniable apex. Falconer lives in a glass-and-timber Neutra-
...ultimately packs a far greater emotional punch than one might've originally anticipated.
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