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Trailer: A Single Man

mcneditor — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:44:08 +0000

Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, A Single Man is the story of a British college professor who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.

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Review: A Single Man

mcneditor — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:31:03 +0000

Tom Ford, as a first timer, does a nice job creating a living, breathing Vanity Fair magazine. The film is pretty. And Colin Firth is excellent as a closed off, pained man who feels his life is over with the loss of his lover. It’s the kind of performance in the kind of movie that could draw an Oscar nod in the thin list of actress contenders each year. But Best Actor is a 1000 to 1 shot. In fact, Julianne Moore has a better shot at Supporting, which might be why the Weinsteins bought the film… to protect their category, which is likely to already be an uphill fight with two likely nominations for Dench and either Hudson or Cruz. Read the full Review here …. >

A Single Man

mcneditor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:32:52 +0000

The setting is Southern California and our moment in time is officially the early sixties. We meet George Falconer (Colin Firth), a gay college professor, as he learns that his lover Jim (Matthew Goode) has died in a car wreck. Grief overwhelms him, and his “invisible status” in society begins to close in again. Suicide seems the best way out. But a mad night with Charley (Julianne Moore), his best girlfriend from England, and the unexpected attentions of an angora-sweater-clad young man make George think twice.