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Pretty Good

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Fresh and Exciting

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's was a good job Mr Firth was in it otherwise I would never have made it to the end. The hype appears to be based on the artistic side of the production. I prefer to be entertained.

Nobody can doubt the calibre of the cast involved, or the director, Tom Ford, but for me this film didn't really do a lot.A simple premise is stretched to breaking point, and even then the film feels overlong.Colin Firth as ever gives the type of performance that thoroughly deserved awards, and I also liked Matthew Goode in his role too.Ultimately though this film will not be one that i'd wish to see again, and plotting and character development are the two reasons for this I'm afraid.A single man - a decent film

This is a quiet, somber, and loving film, plumbing the depths of grief after the loss of one's partner in life. Colin Firth is an English professor whose partner, played by Matthew Goode, has died in a car accident. He is consoled by his friend (Julianne Moore), but is having a lot of trouble snapping out of his despondency. It's a strong cast and Firth and Moore in particular turn in great performances. The beauty of the film, just as in life, is in all of its little moments. Firth's relationship with Goode is told in brief, touching flashbacks, which feel like real memories. A student's (Nicholas Hoult) attraction to him is told very subtly, in the eyes. Firth is morose, but shaken out of his routine and contemplating life and death, takes the opportunity to tell people kind things, the things he normally wouldn't have expressed. He also recognizes those singular moments in life when one sees with absolute clarity, and the way director Tom Ford tells us this is touching and profound.The fact that the people involved in this story are gay is secondary, although it is nice that the movie shows us these relationships are like any other, and the painful consequences of societal rejection. In a heartbreaking scene, Firth's character is not allowed to attend his partner of 16 years' funeral because it's for "family only", but Ford exercises the perfect amount of restraint, and doesn't dwell on this any further. While teaching his class, Firth describes irrational fear as the motivating factor behind hatred of minorities, something heightened when a minority is invisible and walking among us. He's of course alluding to homosexuality, but how appropriate this general message is in 2017, when the outcome of fear has been so clearly felt in U.S. politics.

refined adaptation. touching performance of Colin Firth. and Isherwoodţs universe in warm colors. Julianne Moore doing a splendid work. and the film itself as an old song from a lost age. a film who could be one of favorites for Oscar. its sin - the strange beauty who gives to it not exactly the status of universal story or gay manifesto, profound subject in the right light, but the role of chain of questions. large themes. in unconventional forms. and a story about life and its sense in the light of impressive picture about failure, past, need to reconquest old moments to be yourself. an experience more than a film. see it !