A Single Man
2009/ US
Directed by Tom Ford.
With Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hoult.
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 George Falconer (Colin Firth), who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner Jim (Matthew Goode). A romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and the ultimate importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
Based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood.