A Single ManTom Ford's stunning directorial debut is adapted from the Christopher Isherwood novel originally published in 1964.
In a career-best performance, Colin Firth finally dispels the ghost of Jane Austen's Mr. Darcy (his casting in the BBC's 1995 TV mini-series of Pride and Prejudice sealed Firth's fate as a romantic male lead par excellence) and dons the (impeccably tailored) garb of George Falconer, a middle-aged, gay professor of English at a Southern California college, quietly grieving the untimely death of his lover.
Firth registers every subtle nuance of emotion in a performance that was awarded the Volpi Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival.
Matthew Goode (Brideshead Revisited), Julianne Moore (Far From Heaven) and Nicholas Hoult (Wah Wah) lend fine support.
"Beautiful to look at, exquisitely told and possessed of a rare, casual-paced charm that most other filmmakers take a career to evolve" SMH
