Review of A Single Man (2009) by Richard H — 14 Jul 2011
An excellent, thought provoking and emotionally literate movie about love, death, grief, the future, the past and moving on with your life.
A complex story is told with a combination of humor and art, lyricism and sceptical detachment. Director Tom Ford throws in some very arty touches but the movie had a stark tone that works very well.
The centre point of the movie is Colin Firth's career performance where he holds the screen as grieving lecturer George. An epic performance with some deep and desolate acting, Firth was truly brilliant in this movie and deserved the oscar more for this than he did for his almost as good turn in The Kings Speech.
Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult are both very good in supporting turns. Juliane Moore is good but perhaps a bit mis-cast as a Brit in LA. She often feels a bit forced in her scenes.
The script is full of nice little moments that never quite become mawkish, despite the movies dark tone. The talk of the movie being "de-gayed" is nonsense....
Superb, mature and breath-taking, I'm very impressed by this story.
"Sometimes awful things have their own beauty".
This review of A Single Man (2009) was written by Richard H on 14 Jul 2011.
A Single Man has generally received very positive reviews.
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