The lady and I saw A Single Man yesterday and while I wasn’t sure how I felt about it during the film, thinking back on it, I did enjoy it a lot and thought it had some good things to offer.
For one, it was extremely nice to look at*. While the pacing was a bit slow, it was because of this slow pace that the cinematography really got to shine and take it’s time to explore the details. There was very nice color and composition to nearly every frame. At times the camera lingers a bit too much but what can you do. Not to mention there is all kinds of great suit and car porn the time period had to offer.
A second thing that struck me was how the previously mentioned slow pace only heightened the emotion of what I feel the film essentially was, a study of loss. Much of the praise on this has to go to Colin Firth who was excellent; subtle when he needed to be, which was key.
I’m not in a hurry to watch this film again right away but eventually I would love to see how good the Blu Ray looks. I understand what some reviewers are saying about a lot of style, little substance, but make the call for yourself.
*Even though we had a pretty crappy print of it. That was fairly disappointing.
