Based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man follows one day — it is not a spoiler to say: the last day — in the life of George Falconer, a professor of English at UCLA (I think) in 1962. George is originally English, is gay, and the film opens with the death of Jim, his lover of sixteen years. Eight months after Jim’s death, George remains distraught, though it is now something that he has buried from the view of outsiders. Continue reading A Single Man