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Dir: Tom Ford / USA / 2009 / 101 mins/ Cert: 15A

Starring: Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult.            Language: English           
 
A sorrowful beauty infuses every frame of this remarkable debut feature from fashion designer Tom Ford. Loosely based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man visits a single day in the life of gay Brit expat George Falconer (Colin Firth), a teacher at a Los Angeles college who plans on suicide to end his pain over the death of his lover, Jim (Matthew Goode).

The film is stunningly visualized, with Ford achieving a feeling for light and texture to rival Wong Kar-wai's. Julianne Moore is explosively good, especially in her drunk scene. But the film belongs to Firth. Uncanny at showing the heart crumbling under George's elegant exterior, he gives the performance of his career. Ford is a true visionary, but it's his humanity that gives the love story a ravishing, bruised grandeur.
 
 
Riverbank Shorts Season
All shorts will be screened before the Monday feature film
 
Alibi
Directed by Darren Bolger and Caroline Campbell
 
In a small Irish midland town a woman is brutally murdered while returning to her family for Christmas. When questioned by police, Paddy gives his workmate John a cover story. Twenty years later John is charged with murder and Paddy’s lie is now an alibi.

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