A Single Man (2009)
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Synopsis:
1962: an English professor at an L.A. university has been mourning the death of his lover for eight months and faces a new day with the determination both to live it the full and make it his last.
Review:
One makes inevitable comparisons with other single day narratives such as Ulysses and Under the Volcano, but this is throughout one which belongs to the cinema despite its protagonist's literary leanings. It is a film of looks and perceptions, in which the actors faces are made full use of, and the screen is suffused with colour at times of lived intensity, while at others it is all blacks and silvers and greys. There are other significant touches in the mise en scene, such as the neatly ordered drawers and the glass walled house, all precision and transparency, at odds with the secrecy and deceptive opaqueness of the Firth character, the eloquent symbol here being his glasses, which both reveal the eyes and provide a protective barrier. The acting is first-rate, the attention to costume and coiffure unsurprising from a fashion designer turned director.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Synopsis:
1962: an English professor at an L.A. university has been mourning the death of his lover for eight months and faces a new day with the determination both to live it the full and make it his last.
Review:
One makes inevitable comparisons with other single day narratives such as Ulysses and Under the Volcano, but this is throughout one which belongs to the cinema despite its protagonist's literary leanings. It is a film of looks and perceptions, in which the actors faces are made full use of, and the screen is suffused with colour at times of lived intensity, while at others it is all blacks and silvers and greys. There are other significant touches in the mise en scene, such as the neatly ordered drawers and the glass walled house, all precision and transparency, at odds with the secrecy and deceptive opaqueness of the Firth character, the eloquent symbol here being his glasses, which both reveal the eyes and provide a protective barrier. The acting is first-rate, the attention to costume and coiffure unsurprising from a fashion designer turned director.
Country: US
Technical: col/2.35:1 101m
Director: Tom Ford
Cast: Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
Synopsis:
1962: an English professor at an L.A. university has been mourning the death of his lover for eight months and faces a new day with the determination both to live it the full and make it his last.
Review:
One makes inevitable comparisons with other single day narratives such as Ulysses and Under the Volcano, but this is throughout one which belongs to the cinema despite its protagonist's literary leanings. It is a film of looks and perceptions, in which the actors faces are made full use of, and the screen is suffused with colour at times of lived intensity, while at others it is all blacks and silvers and greys. There are other significant touches in the mise en scene, such as the neatly ordered drawers and the glass walled house, all precision and transparency, at odds with the secrecy and deceptive opaqueness of the Firth character, the eloquent symbol here being his glasses, which both reveal the eyes and provide a protective barrier. The acting is first-rate, the attention to costume and coiffure unsurprising from a fashion designer turned director.