Making his debut as a movie director, the fashion designer Tom Ford has ambitiously chosen to adapt Christopher Isherwood's masterly 1964 short novel A Single Man. In its day, the book was quietly revolutionary in its matter-of-fact depiction of a fateful day in the life of a gay, middle-aged Englishman in Los Angeles. George, an English professor at a small college-played here with exquisite subtlety and deep feeling by Colin Firth-is a man struggling to find a reason to live in the aftermath of an accident that took the life of his younger lover, Jim (Matthew Goode), with whom he'd lived for 16 years.
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