Tom Ford has made his directorial debut with a movie adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel, A Single Man. Colin Firth stars as a gay college professor who struggles to find meaning in his life after the sudden death of his longtime partner. Julianne Moore costars as a lifelong friend of the professor’s. The movie premiered at the 66th Venice Film Festival this year and won its lead Colin Firth a best actor award while Ford himself captured the Queer Lion (a trophy awarded to the “Best Movie with GLBT Themes & Queer Culture”). After Venice A Single Man moved to the Toronto International Film Festival and then – to the London Film Festival. The Weinstein Company has acquired US rights to A Single Man and will release the film in NY and LA before the first of the year to qualify for Academy Award (Oscar) consideration. A wider release is expected in January 2010.

Режиссерский дебют Том Форда состоялся на Венецианском Кинофестивале в этом году. На суд зрителей был представлен фильм “A Single Man”, снятый по одноименному роману Кристофера Ишервуда. В главной роли снялся Колин Ферт, сыгравший английского профессора-гея Джорджа, переживающего смерть своего любовника. Утешает его давняя подруга Чарли (Джулианна Мур), влюбленная в него. Действие фильма разворачивается в Лос Анжелесе 60-х. “A Single Man” относится к разряду малобюджетного кино и снят был всего за 21 день. 

The story takes place in 1962 in Los Angeles. It starts with a fatal car crash in which Jim (Matthew Goode) is killed. George Falconer (Firth) learns about his lover’s death the next day when a relative phones, but he is warned not to attend the funeral of the man he lived with for 16 years. Broken-hearted and alone, he seeks comfort from his long-ago flame, now friend, Charley (Julianne Moore), who is obviously still in love with him. But George is too devastated to be interested in either sex, and even rebuffs the approach of a hot young hustler played by Jon Kortajarena, who is a true James Dean lookalike. He tries to avoid getting involved with his student Kenny (Nicholas Hoult of “About a Boy”), who is just discovering his sexual preferences and aggressively courts the older man. Instead, he makes plans for committing suicide. (Reuters)

Julianne Moore talks to Grazia UK in exclusive interview: “Tom sent me the script, and I thought Charlie was a really fun party girl, a faded party girl. He just put his whole heart and soul into making this movie. It’s not just a fashion project. Tom was very passionate about how things looked and how things should be. That’s exactly what you want from a director. Sometimes the production sets I turn up to look wrong, but you feel like Tom has considered everything down to the last detail. Tom’s a guy who looks at the whole picture.”

Tom Ford in interview with WWD: “People who don’t know me well will be very surprised by the film. It shows a different side of me — not the one that people see. I’m actually much more serious, romantic, existential. I didn’t want to be perceived as some fashion designer who’s come to Venice and decided to make a film. I’d like this to be the beginning of a parallel career alongside fashion. The process seems really natural to me, and I’d ideally like to make a film every three to four years. I love my day job, as well. It’s been great to bounce between the two”.

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Однако художественный гений Тома Форда обеспечил фильму безупречное исполнение, в том числе визуальное. Колин Ферт уже получил приз за лучшую мужскую роль, а Том Форд – специальную награду Queer Lion за лучший фильм на гомосексуальную тематику. Вполне возможно также, что фильм будет в скором будущем наминирован на Оскар, а на большие экраны он выйдет уже в январе 2010-го года.

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