Los Angeles, 1962: at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, an English professor who teaches at a university in California has lost his life’s partner. And, in the course of a single day, meets his students, a divorced friend, a boy who admires him, and mostly remembers, suffers, dreams, questions himself, wants to die too. For his debut as a director in 2009, the fashion designer Tom Ford (former artistic director of Gucci and Yves Saint Laurent) turns to the wonderful novel A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood, an intellectual, homosexual, high-level emigré from England to California like his main character. This is a film with impeccable lines, colours, moods, permeated with the pain of living and sustained by the perfect and well-calibrated performance by Colin Firth (winner of the Coppa Volpi in Venice).
DIRECTOR: Tom Ford
NATION: United States
YEAR: 2009
RUNTIME: 99′
CAST: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, Nicholas Hoult, Jon Kortajarena
Original version with subtitles