A Single Man (2009)
Storyline
The life of George Falconer, a British college professor, is reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will to live as he seeks the console of his close girl friend Charley, who is struggling with her own questions about life.
Directors
Cast
Erin Daniels, Nicholas Hoult, Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Jon Hamm, Tricia Munford, Keri Lynn Pratt, Matthew Goode, Elisabeth Harnois, Ginnifer Goodwin, Lee Pace, Jon Kortajarena, Paulette Lamori, Ryan Simpkins, Teddy Sears, Paul Butler, Aaron Sanders, Aline Weber, Jenna Gavigan, Alicia Carr, Adam Shapiro, Ridge Canipe, Marlene Martinez, Nicole Steinwedell
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Reviews
91
Firth plays him as a man of his time who is also mournfully ahead of his time. He's addicted to his own broken heart. A Single Man may break yours as well.
90
Tom Ford -- the Texas-born fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci -- financed this first feature himself. The producer couldn't have hired a smarter director.
90
Variety
Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of “A Single Man” that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections.
88
Rolling Stone
The film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career.
80
Newsweek
A Single Man's sleek surface may go against Isherwood's crisp, understated prose, yet the story's beating, wounded heart and its spiky intelligence still come through, personified in Firth's moving, eloquently internalized performance.
