A Single Man, starring Colin Firth, is a beautiful, sophisticated mood piece. An exploration of grief and loss and love. It centers on a gay man in the 60s whose lover has died in a car crash. In addition to the deep painful grief he experiences is the isolation of being gay, of having lost a love that had to be hidden and unrecognized.
It is filmed in an intoxicating atmospheric way that is sometime too much, but it succeeds in bringing out emotional nuances.
I found the resolution kind of a cliche however, and, as much as I liked A Single Man, I couldn't really get absorbed in it. I actually watched it in spurts, a few minutes here one day, a few the next.
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