A Single Man — Living with Unspoken Grief
A SINGLE MAN
STARRING COLIN FIRTH AND JULIANNE MOORE
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
December 24, 2009 — “An exquisite, almost sensual grief suffuses every frame of A Single Man, Tom Ford’s artful adaptation of a novel about a surreptitiously grieving English professor in Los Angeles,” says Bob Mondello
at National Public Radio (NPR).
“Surreptitiously grieving? Yes: George Falconer –
Colin Firth – has been in mourning for months, but
scarcely anyone knows it, because the year is 1962,
and for George to let on what he’s feeling would be
an admission that the friend who’s died in a car crash
was more than a friend.”
“And Jim — Matthew Goode – was, in all but name,
George’s spouse.” Continue reading…
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