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Tom Ford Makes Debut Film
A Single Man at Coolidge
Colin Firth stars in A Single Man
Tom Ford is a film director. This statement would have seemed implausible a few short years ago. Most people know Ford as a heralded fashion designer. His appointment as creative director of Gucci in 1994 found him turning the nearly bankrupt brand into a fashion powerhouse. A decade later he branched off into projects of his own, among them: feature length film. The result is one of 2009’s most critically lauded movies, A Single Man. The film will be shown at The Coolidge Corner Theater beginning December 25, 2009.
A Single Man (based upon the novel by Christopher Isherwood) follows the story of George Falconer (Colin Firth), a British college professor teaching and living in Southern California in the 1960’s. The meat of the story lies in George’s reaction to the loss of his long-time partner—the tumult of losing the person you love and the weight of dealing with that loss at a time when being a gay man was unconscionable, let alone worthy of significant emotional reactions. The supporting cast includes Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult.
Firth delivers the performance of a lifetime, for which he has already won the Coppa Volpi at the Venice International Film Festival, and is garnering a good degree of Oscar buzz. Also noteworthy are the sets, designed by the same crew whose hands bring this era of tepid-then-revolutionary change to life in the television series Mad Men. And Ford’s freshman effort isn’t too shabby either. It seems that his artistic eye can be applied to more than just clothing, as A Single Man is both beautiful and heartbreaking.
Don’t miss your chance to see one of the year’s best when it comes to Boston December 25, 2009 at Coolidge. For more information please visit www.coolidge.org.