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2009
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Fashion designer Tom Ford makes his directing debut with this haunting adaptation (cowritten with David Scearce) of Christopher Isherwood's groundbreaking 1964 novel about gay love. A closeted British professor in southern California (Colin Firth, outstanding) is so despondent over the death of his longtime lover (Matthew Goode) that he plans to kill himself, but a series of unsettling encounters jolts him out of his grief. Ford's eye for period detail is exact; brief cutaways, incisive dialogue, and charged glances telegraph the cold-war paranoia and sexual alienation of the early 60s. The game cast, including Julianne Moore as the professor's onetime lover and Nicholas Hoult as an admiring student, is well served by cinematographer Eduard Grau, whose color washes, from desaturated tones to a Technicolor sunset, mirror the protagonist's swirling emotions. R, 99 min. By Andrea Gronvall

Official Site: www.asingleman-movie.com/#/home
Director: Tom Ford
Producer: Tom Ford, Chris Weitz, Andrew Miano and Robert Salerno
Cast: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode, Jon Kortajarena, Paulette Lamori, Ryan Simpkins, Ginnifer Goodwin, Teddy Sears, Aaron Sanders, Lee Pace and Jon Hamm

Sorry there are no showtimes for A Single Man on Thursday, September 9.

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A really wonderful film that explains how many in the straight world simply do understand Gay love. Beautifully shot, acted and the mood was sheer Isherwood. All the actors were supurb.

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