![]() The students increasingly affect the style of beatniks, bikers and bohemians, and youth culture is breaking through the suburban conformity. It is 1962, and there is fever and change in the air: the recently passed Cuban missile crisis has left America in a jittery mood, relieved but still profoundly anxious. George Falconer, played by Firth, is an expatriate Englishman in Los Angeles, a bespectacled college professor teaching English literature. However, he finds himself in the midst of what sometimes looks like an indulgent exercise in 1960s period style, glazed with 21st-century good taste, a 100-minute commercial for men's cologne: Bereavement by Dior.īased on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the film follows an unhappy single day in the life of an unhappy single man. At its centre, there is an elegant, nuanced and sophisticated performance from Colin Firth, for whose English reticence the role is tailor-made. ![]() ![]() T om Ford's A Single Man begins with urgent Hitchcockian strings and an underwater dream sequence showing a naked, toned body drifting and floating – appropriate for a movie about love and loss which all but drowns in its own gorgeousness. ![]()
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