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Mood:
- SincereTouchingBittersweetGloomyStylized
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Plot:
- Best FriendsGays and LesbiansHaunted By the PastGenderMind and SoulUnfulfillmentTragic LoveElderly more...
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Genres:
- DramaPeriod
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Time/Period:
- 60s
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Place:
- CaliforniaLos AngelesUSA
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Praise:
- Critically AcclaimedPrestigious AwardsVenice Festival Winner
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Style:
- Voice Over
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
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A Single Man, 2009
English
USA
Profile of A Single Man
The mood of A Single Man is bittersweet, sincere, and touching. The plot centers around best friends, gays and lesbians, and being haunted by the past. It is a drama and period movie. Stylistically, A Single Man includes a voice over. In approach, it is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. A Single Man is set in Los Angeles. It happens in the 1960s. It is based on a book. A Single Man is known for being a Venice Festival winner and critically acclaimed.
Summary of A Single Man
Tom Ford's historical importance (to date) rests in part on his unique collaborations with the late twentieth century's great commercial photographers: Richard Avedon, Steven Meisel, Helmut Newton, Herb Ritts and so on. With them, he championed the idea that style could govern our memories, without an appeal to straightforward nostalgia. Evidence of this same balance of past and present can also be found in the clothes he famously created at Gucci. Ford drew from the past in ways that clearly distinguish tribute from innovation, evoking both technological change and the timeless truths of the human form.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.Based on a late-career Christopher Isherwood novel, told largely through flashback and featuring alarmingly precise attention to period detail in furniture, costume and architecture, A Single Man could easily have felt like a throwback, a work of atavism. But Ford pulls this pre-AIDS tale of gay love and loss into our age by reminding us, again, of what is eternal in life, love and how we choose to forgive. The film deliberately reveals how George pulls himself from the narcissism of self-sacrifice to an understanding of his value to the world and the people around him. Ford seems to be gently insisting that the rich and complex personal histories of gay men, from any age, must be part of the political calculations of our time. A Single Man confirms this artist's ongoing impact on our culture and our awareness of our place within it.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 19 October 2009 |
| Runtime: | 99 min |
Cast and Crew
as George
as Charley
as Kenny
as Jim
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Users Reviews
- 04.April.2011
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- by: Neil Karels
- Neil Karels rated this movie
0/10
- 23.January.2011
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- by: Pete Richmond
- Pete Richmond rated this movie
10/10Must See
