Designer Tom Ford's directorial debut "A Single Man" is visually stunning and sees British actor Colin Firth give one of his finest performances. So fine, in fact, that last weekend Firth won a first 'Best Actor' BAFTA award. In an amusing acceptance speech, Firth admitted that he'd written an email to Ford, rejecting the role, but that a fridge repair man rang his door bell causing him to forget to press 'send'.

Based on the 1964 novel by Christopher Isherwood, the film follows a single day in the life of George Falconer (played by Colin Firth), a British college professor, who cannot get over the death, in a car accident, of his long time partner, Jim (played by English actor Matthew Goode). George's life has become mechanical and joyless and his only confidant seems to be Charley (played by Julianne Moore), a fellow English expat and semi-alcoholic divorcee who is also struggling to find meaning to her life.

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