A Single Man
(2009)
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult
A Single man: words cannot describe how much i enjoyed this film. Rarely am i brought to tears in a film and even more rare are the occasions in which my eyes well up with salty teardrops in the first fifteen minutes. Colin Firth's performance is brilliant beyond words. Firth's emotions wrought with pain are perfectly captured in his facial expressions, maintaining the obvious without losing any of his distant-tortured charm.Nicholas Hoult's character interjected vitality and inspiration into the crisis filled life that Colin Firth was simply floating through. Julianne Moore plays the sentimental drunk who maintains a belief in imaginary importance on past personal blunders. As a whole the film was beautifully crafted by the design savvy hands of the brilliant Tom Ford. Many reviewers have accused Ford of creating an aesthetic feel that spoke more to an advertising campaign than that of a full length film, i would disagree entirely. I think that his design quality was seamlessly integrated with the pace, time period, mise en scene, and overall feel of the film. As far as the controversial nature of the subject that was covered in A Single Man, I found it to be presented in an extremely tasteful and innuendo-laced manner. Tom Ford created a story that ignored the controversy and focused on love and the overall beauty of the film and its' characters. Overall, one of the best films i've seen this year.
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