Review of A Single Man (2009) by Deanomite — 02 Jan 2020

This was a real surprise. The director (Tom Ford) is a fashion designer, not a movie director. It is a very simple story about a guy missing his ex boyfriend. Colin Firth is always good to see ( my favorite performance of his is Valmont).

Photographed very nicely by Eduard Grau (The Gift), who has not done anything else of this caliber. The visuals look like a series of perfume ads, and as such should not feel so personal and touching as it does.

If you never had your heart broke and could still feel the passion burning for the lost love, this movie will take you back to that moment and put you there and make you remember that missing your love is the next best thing to having them, maybe because when you had the love there was so much pain, the pain of if nothing else, that it was not meant to last.