“A Single Man” Controversial, Profound, Gay/Not Gay, Too Beautiful?
“The Price People Pay For Silence”
It might… remind you of what’s important, or might at least offer proof that there really are other people in the world besides you who care about the meaning of life.
Director Tom Ford may deny it, but his dramatisation of Christopher Isherwood’s seminal novel is a more profoundly gay film than Milk or Brokeback Mountain.
If anything it’s too beautiful. Grief, being an ineluctable part of the human condition, has long been a staple of movie dramas, but it’s rarely been so reduced to mere wallpaper for sensual imagery.
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