A single man

I was really surprised to hear that Tom Ford was directing and funding a film. Having the potential to be cliched the film had been poorly reviewed by some critics. However, still wanting to see it.

The film was surprisingly beautiful. The storyline was captivating and approachable a middle aged professor is left heartbroken after his long term partner dies in a car accident. The professor is denied access to the funeral so really all he is left is with his memories and his day to day life. The professor carries on through his life with an intention to end it. Plotting his own suicide that ultimately doesnt happen. Meeting a boy from his english class, the boy is curious about the professor. whether this is sexual or not is only to be assumed as there is a definitite undetone of homosexuality throughout the film. The professor gives in to the students interests and they go for a drink which later turns into a moment of running and swimming in the sea naked. The student is invited back to the professors house where his plot to kill himself has dissolved with his realisation that moments such as those bring clarity to his life and brings him back to reality. which ironically he has a heart attack and dies.

The film is cinematically filmed really beautiful, using panaromic movement. The professors moments of clarity are often expressed by an emphasis of the colours.
There is a continous music score which beautiful leaves the viewer in a state of wonderment at the sheer beauty of the pieces with respect to the films narrative.