{4\/5} \u201cIf there\u2019s going to be a world where there\u2019s no time for sentiment, then that\u2019s a world I don\u2019t want to live in.\u201d<\/p>\n
A Single Man<\/strong>, released in 2009<\/p>\n George\u2019s partner of 16 years, Jim, has died and he\u2019s been drifting through life ever since. We follow George through his interactions with various people on a day when he’s made a momentous decision. His relationship with Jim is told in a series of flashbacks. George is a literature professor, but in the middle of today’s lecture he launches into a discussion of minorities and fear. It’s 1962 so everyone’s worried about the Cold War.<\/p>\n This isn’t the movie for you if you’re looking for car chases and explosions. In fact, it proceeds fairly slowly for a modern movie — George is stopping to smell the roses, as it were.<\/p>\n Colin Firth (King George VI in The King’s Speech<\/strong>) plays George, and carries the movie as he’s in every scene. Julianne Moore (the woman who doesn’t go blind in Blindness<\/strong>) plays Charley, his friend and former lover — she’s fabulous as always. Ginnifer Goodwin (Snow White in the TV show Once Upon a Time<\/strong>) has a small role as a neighbour. The movie was directed by Tom Ford (formerly a fashion designer) — it was his first.<\/p>\n The music was by Abel Korzeniowski, who I’d previously been unaware of — the music fit the story, and was different enough to be interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4\/5} \u201cIf there\u2019s going to be a world where there\u2019s no time for sentiment, then that\u2019s a world I don\u2019t want to live in.\u201d A Single Man, released in 2009 George\u2019s partner of 16 years, Jim, has died and he\u2019s been drifting through life ever since. We follow George through his interactions with various people […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,6,5],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-drama","tag-movie","tag-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10543,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/10543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}