Well Deserved Praise

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

Dreadfully Boring

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Después de haber varias películas de homosexualidad que me parecían muy malas, veo esta y pienso, bueno al menos alguien sigue haciendo buenas películas de este tipo. Al principio me estaba saturando. Todo era basarse en lo de siempre, sexo, sexo y sexo, pero luego se endereza y nos cuenta una película interesante en la que ya no solo es sexo si no que los personajes van profundizando se va avanzando en la trama y se cuenta una historia.Los actores están estupendos, te llevan todos por donde quieren llevarte. Se huele la sensualidad a flor de piel, sobre todo después de la primera media hora y sin necesidad de hacer esos planos a cámara lenta que tan malos son.La fotografía me ha parecido, estupenda, preciosa, te mete en la historia completamente. Cada momento tiene su fotografía. La parte fría tiene luz fría, la parte cálida tiene luz cálida, cuando la historia crece la fotografía mejora y se hace más cálida. No me gusta, al principio, cuando se empeña en hacer esos planos a cámara lenta de torsos desnudos, de solo ojos, como si ese personaje solo pensase en cuerpos, cuando tenemos un personaje tan culto, tan cuidadoso, tan elegante. El está presentado muy bien.El director que empieza muy mal, luego corrige la película y la lleva por un camino estupendo. La lleva sin prisa pero sin pausa, te lleva a ti con ella. No sabe poner la cámara, se conforma con observar la historia, pero al menos no hace planos feos.Es una película con estilo a la que remontaría la primera media hora para mejorarla. After having several homosexual movies that I thought were very bad, I see this and I think, well at least someone is still making good films of this type. At first I was getting saturated. Everything was based on the usual, sex, sex and sex, but then straightens up and tells us an interesting movie in which it is not only sex, but the characters go deeper and the plot is told and a story is told .The actors are great, they take you all where they want to take you. You can smell the sensuality on the skin, especially after the first half hour and without having to make those slow-motion shots that are so bad.The photography has seemed to me, great, beautiful, it gets you into the story completely. Every moment has its photograph. The cold part has cold light, the warm part has warm light, when the story grows the picture improves and becomes warmer. I do not like it, at first, when he insists on making those slow-motion shots of naked torsos, of only eyes, as if that character only thought of bodies, when we have such a cultured, careful, and elegant character. He is presented very well.The director who starts very badly, then corrects the film and takes it down a great path. He carries it without haste but without pause, it takes you with it. He does not know how to put the camera, he is content to observe the story, but at least he does not make ugly plans.It's a movie with style that would go back the first half hour to improve it.

Depression overwhelms a college professor on the anniversary of his boyfriend's tragic death in this drama written and directed by Tom Ford. As per Ford's latter 'Nocturnal Animals', this is a visually arresting and finely acted motion picture, further topped off with a superb Golden Globe nominated score. While some of Ford's imagery is a little ostentatious, he shows perfect restrain at other points, allowing Colin Firth to emote silently in close-up during a flashback in which he hears the news of his boyfriend's death by phone. Ford's use of slow motion as Firth drives along, watching neighbourhood kids and others works very well too; one truly gets the sense of Firth using the day to contemplate whether he can go on living or whether he should poetically end it all. There is, however, no escaping how slim the narrative is and not all of the subplots that crop up necessarily gel. Julianne Moore's turn as his best friend adds surprisingly little to his journey, except for some unanswered questions about their past together. It is hard to know what to make of Jon Kortajarena's gigolo either, however, Nicholas Hoult has a nice turn with a lot of suggestiveness as one of Firth's students with an unusual interest in him. Indeed, while all the little bits and pieces here might not necessarily add up, the experience of 'A Single Man' resonates long after it is over.

This is a quiet, somber, and loving film, plumbing the depths of grief after the loss of one's partner in life. Colin Firth is an English professor whose partner, played by Matthew Goode, has died in a car accident. He is consoled by his friend (Julianne Moore), but is having a lot of trouble snapping out of his despondency. It's a strong cast and Firth and Moore in particular turn in great performances. The beauty of the film, just as in life, is in all of its little moments. Firth's relationship with Goode is told in brief, touching flashbacks, which feel like real memories. A student's (Nicholas Hoult) attraction to him is told very subtly, in the eyes. Firth is morose, but shaken out of his routine and contemplating life and death, takes the opportunity to tell people kind things, the things he normally wouldn't have expressed. He also recognizes those singular moments in life when one sees with absolute clarity, and the way director Tom Ford tells us this is touching and profound.The fact that the people involved in this story are gay is secondary, although it is nice that the movie shows us these relationships are like any other, and the painful consequences of societal rejection. In a heartbreaking scene, Firth's character is not allowed to attend his partner of 16 years' funeral because it's for "family only", but Ford exercises the perfect amount of restraint, and doesn't dwell on this any further. While teaching his class, Firth describes irrational fear as the motivating factor behind hatred of minorities, something heightened when a minority is invisible and walking among us. He's of course alluding to homosexuality, but how appropriate this general message is in 2017, when the outcome of fear has been so clearly felt in U.S. politics.

I came a crossed this movie by accident on Netflix. Went in to the movie, all I know was the main character is Colin Firth. 15 seconds into the movie, I am already impressed with how beautiful the graphics is, I myself being a graphic designer/photographer, I had to see who is the director. And I am surprised and not too surprised it's Tom Ford. I am surprised cuz I have no idea he direct movies, not surprised because it is very Tom Ford, their photography is always stunning. Throughout the movie, the set, the costume, the makeup, the styling, all impeccable!!! That has to be a lot of work and it shows! I searched and apparently it's the same group of people that did Mad men, the quality just really draw my attention. The movie itself is intense at times, I wouldn't say it's the best film or the most interesting story, but again, it's very beautiful and Colin Firth is a great actor that pull the whole story together.Overall definitely worth the time watching it. Good job Tom Ford!