British Professor George Falconer (Colin Firth) has lost his lover of 16 years and goes through a day in which he explores issues of death, life, and sexuality.
This is a very interesting movie. It's relatively short at an hour and 40 minutes, but it moves slowly. Fashion designer Tom Ford's direction is fascinating especially in how he uses color to express certain states of mind - gray means hopelessness and grief, while much brighter, saturated tones represent youth and life. It wasn't my favorite movie because I found it very sad, but Colin Firth is brilliant.
Homosexuality is the key in this movie - Colin Firth's character is gay and Tom Ford is gay, so we see things from that perspective. If that sort of thing makes a person uncomfortable, there are several scenes in this that will make them turn away, but it's all handled very tastefully.
I don't want to say much more about this because it's hard to describe the film without giving anything anyway, but I will say it is very slow, very sad, and very well-done in its genre. For a first film, it is excellent. I absolutely loved the art direction and costumes, they were beautiful and made the whole film look like the classiest fashion ad I've ever seen. My favorite scene: Colin Firth gets a phone call about his lover's death, and for about three minutes we watch him gradually begin to break down, run out in the rain, and weep in Julianne Moore's arms. That should have won him the Oscar.
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