The designer Tom Ford has made a smooth transition to director with “a human soul, the story of a college professor mourning impeccable style in 1960 in California.
The ultra-safe Ford never doubted his ability – though he admits that many others.
“It’s funny, because everyone was so welcoming,” said Ford. “And now that I made the film, only a few people have told me:” It is wonderful when everyone is laughing at you? “ Laugh now.
“A man,” received heavy criticism – opens widely throughout North America on Christmas day – and last week has been nominated for a Golden Globe for his score and the performances of Julianne Moore and Colin Firth.
Firth won the award for best actor at the Venice Film Festival for his portrayal of George Falconer, a gay Italian in Los Angeles mourns the death of her lover of many years in a car accident.
Ford – who directed, co-wrote and co-produced the film – has been praised for its subtle adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel, which describes a day in the life of George through an interior monologue apparently shooting.
The film, add a dash of intrigue and gallons of visual style.
You can see a future without his partner Jim (Matthew Goode), George decides to end it all. Get a gun and begins to put his affairs in order.
En route, he meets his best friend, Charley (Julianne Moore, wearing a dress to die for) and Kenny Nicholas Hoult (all grown up since he played the boy in “About a Boy”), a young student who takes an interest bit stalkerish ‘to George.
It ‘very quiet, but then Texas-born Ford has never lacked ambition. Now 48, has transformed the luxury brand Gucci in 1990 before founding his own label Tom Ford. The film seems a small step.
“Never let the thought of failure, tell me when something I thought I wanted,” he said. “I wanted to make a movie. And I want to do another and another to another.”
“A man is the work of a fan of the film, a love letter to cinema. Shards of life in black and white into Technicolor George, when in contact with other people. Ford was pleased with the administration of Alfred Hitchcock, Pedro Almodovar by Wong Kar-wai. Even “The Wizard of Oz”, a reference point. These are not acts of a director in fear of being confronted with their idols.
Film style area offers everything you would expect from a movie fashionista: The precise period detail, handsome actors and beautiful costumes capture the 1960 with the genius of his clothes, pin-well-cut suits pink mohair sweater.
“I do not know how to help myself,” laughed Ford, who, despite jetlag induction of opening international of the series is perfect, his shirt sleeves clean crisp.
“They told me afterwards:” Everyone is so beautiful. “And I thought, ‘Are they? Was something that came from me.
“It’s kind of really improved.” Bug see the world through the eyes of a man who thinks of going, and everything becomes hyper-good for him. ”
Ford insists, however, did not style over substance. Many critics were surprised by the moderation of the film, which is a smart way unflashy, ironic, emotionally reserved man consumed by grief. This is a tribute to Firth, who gives the performance of his career, but also Ford.
Ford said that when he chose the project, believe it or not, I do not mind the style. It supports layers of the characters. But when you’re looking for the right project, its history something to say. This is what I drew.
“I discovered that my voice as a filmmaker. He knew what he meant as a fashion designer, but be realistic: Who needs to see a film of Tom Ford, who cares what I say?”
What the film seems to say, embrace the moment and enjoy the beauty that surrounds you.
Isherwood, as later – best known for writing the story of Berlin in 1930 that inspired the musical “Cabaret” – Ford has an interest in philosophy and spirituality. The top movie quotes with approval of Aldous Huxley, “Experience is not what happens to a man, what a man does with what happens to him.”
“It ‘a very spiritual book,” said Ford. “This is a guy who sees his future. They are living in the present.”
Despite the welcome of the film is not on wheels. Ford has taken openly gay blankets to advertise the film with a poster with Moore and Firth – which means that in the eyes of some, a problem of heterosexuals.
Ford said that the agreement is “Marketing 101: you have the two biggest stars and give great performances, which will be placed on the sign to the people to go see her?”
He is less happy to have to cut the trailer to remove a male-male kiss – in Europe, but also the United States as “erotic content” that limit the circumstances in which it was.
Agreed to judge – the marketing has won again – but he says that the classification was “totally absurd”.
In general, however, Ford is enjoying his new career.
He said that the film is “the closest thing to God, we become.”
“I created this universe is sealed forever in this little bubble. A hundred years from now, all players are dead, are dead – but still able to pop and laugh, cry, smile. Living. It ‘just amazing. “
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