Tom Ford’s first film “A Single Man” premiered at the 66th Venice Film Festival last week. Based on the novel by Christopher Isherwood, the movie starts Colin Firth, Julianne Moore and Matthew Goode (Nicholas Hoult of Skins makes an appearance too). The story is set in early-Sixties Los Angeles, and follows a day in the life of a gay British literature professor wrestling with the sudden death of his longtime partner. [Source]
The budget film was directed, coproduced, and cowroteby Ford together with David Scearce; and was shot within 21 days.
When asked what it was like directing a film for the first time, Ford told WWD, “I don’t want to sound egotistical, but it felt so natural. I’m used to framing an image. In fashion, your job is to create a vision and then communicate that vision with help from a great creative team. Directing is similar to that, and I had a great group of people to work with. The whole experience was very fulfilling. It is, perhaps, my most purely artistic endeavor.”
Read the rest of the interview here.
[Picture sources + credit: WWD, Fashionologie]
