A Single Man

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• Country: USA
• Year: 2009
• Running time: 99 Minutes

Southern California, the early 1960s. George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay college professor, 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, and told largely through flashback, A Single Man features alarmingly precise attention to period detail in furniture, costume and architecture. Debut director Tom Ford (known primarily for his photographic collaborations) pulls this pre-AIDS tale of gay love and loss into our modern age by reminding us, again, of what is eternal in life, love and how we choose to forgive.

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