![]() ![]() ![]() Adapting Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 novel about a day in the life of a gay middle-aged professor mourning the recent death of his longtime lover, Ford concocts an unholy assemblage of blandly symbolic imagery, jarring cross-cuts between past and present, and disconnected close-ups of body parts, filling in the gaps with underwater footage, jump cuts, and an endless blast of hyperdramatic strings on the soundtrack. In A Single Man, his debut effort as film director, fashion designer Tom Ford seems determined to err not on the side of caution, but on that of aesthetic overload instead. ![]()
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