A Single Man is a lavish and romantic examination of interrupted love, a chronicle of life and loss and everything that binds it together. Its mood is its truth and its imagery is all the narrative we need. It is one of the most beautiful things you will set eyes on all year.

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An English professor once told me that the hardships and travails with which you and I wrestle never rise to the height of tragedy, no matter their extremes or intensity. True tragedy only occurs, he said, when immense calamities befall exceptional individuals. Tell that to the ordinary shlub beset by unrelenting heartbreak in the Coen [...]

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