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A Single Man [12A]
- Director:
- Tom Ford
- Starring:
- Colin Firth, Matthew Goode, Julianne Moore
Fashion guru Tom Ford’s debut feature is a sumptuous mix of Mad Men and Far From Heaven. Set in wealthy 1960s California, the film focuses on George (Firth), a gay college professor who learns that his lover Jim (Goode, Brideshead Revisited) has died in a car wreck. Grief overwhelms him and suicide seems the best way out, until a mad night with his lovelorn friend Charley (Moore), and the unexpected attentions of an angora-sweater-clad young man (Nicholas Hoult, About A Boy) makes George think twice. Firth deservedly won the Best Actor prize at Venice, and Ford proves that he is a filmmaker of genuine distinction.
