Fridays are the best, that's why, from now on, you'll get to see some of my favorites every Friday!This week: A single man!
Director: Tom Ford
Writer: Tom Ford, David Scearce
Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore,
Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Goode
Before the movie even starts, you find out it
is directed and produced by Tom Ford, the famous designer. What are your
expectations? I thought I was going to see amazing clothes, beautiful sets and
elegance. Now, at the end, I can say that I did see those things, but they were
so many others that raised the bar even higher.
First of all, I loved the way it was directed.
The shots, the specific details that he focused on, the style, all were special
and elegant, smooth. I absolutely loved the fact that, whenever George, the
main character, saw something that reminded him of the great past or something
he loves or admires now, that each moment was captured in amazing colour,
bright and full of life. All, in contrast, to the rather dull and grey scenes
in his ordinary day that is making him feel miserably and pushes him to
suicide.
Tom Ford also shows in a very artistic way the
unbereable speed in which time is passing, speed that is slowly killing George.
Every moment he is reminded of Jim, his love, with whom he spent 16 years and
who, suddenly, died in a car accident. Since that day forward, his life wasn’t
the same. It is a story of colours, of smell, touch, hearing.
Second of all, it did have, as you would
expect from a fantastic designer, class;
elegance is a key word when I think of Julianne Moore, who portrays
Charley, a lonely women who is George’s only friend. She is a triple threat: beautiful, talented
and elegant, and I love her. The dinner scene was very sweet and you can really
see the relationship that the two have; it’s a very cool, straight-forward, honest
and full of love and memories that always makes them nostalgic of past times.
I always noticed, as I said in the beginning,
the obsession for details. I thought it brought quality and beauty to the film
and made it very special. You’ve got to love the neatly way George prepares his
death, worried even about the damage his
blood is going to cause to the bed.
Kenny Porter, played by Nicholas Hault, was
quite a revelation for me and I can’t wait to see what he does next. The game
between him and George was so sweet, simple and fun, that it would always keep
me guessing the nature of their attraction: sexual or not sexual? Does he
admire Falconer as a professor or as man?
The movie, unfortunately, doesn’t really give
us a solid answer, but leaves it to our choice.
The end, however, is sad, but fufilling, I guess, for the main
character!
It is a beautiful film that I highly
recommend! It is one of my favorites!
