A Single Man, based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, is the directorial debut of designer Tom Ford starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Nicholas Hault, and Jon Kortajarena. The film chronicles the final day of a Los Angeles based professor in the early 1960's as he prepares to commit suicide in an attempt to end his grief over the loss of his lover of sixteen years. It was filmed in only twenty-one days, financed completely by Mr. Ford, and is nothing short of amazing.
I knew it would be love at first sight for me simply because it's a project of the amazing Tom Ford, but there are so many other aspects of the film that make it lust worthy. Julianne Moore is stunning in the film, as she often is, and the sets, costumes, and film effects are perfection.
Which is no surprise given that Tom Ford himself has confessed that he is a perfectionist. But, there are so many amazing details in the film that you would never notice if you didn't know the history of the story and Mr. Ford. There are cameos by Don Bachardy [the long-time partner of Christopher Isherwood] and Richard Buckley [the current-time lover of Tom Ford]. Even the suits that Colin Firth's character, George, wears in the film had a label stitched inside with his name and the date it was "made" for him, 1957.
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