I remember seeing Days of Thunder and coming out convinced I had just seen a two hour coke advert so it was with some trepidation that I watched this film by a fashion aficionado no less and was very pleasantly surprised.
I couldn't shake that feeling that every scene, every set had been mood-borded for colour contrast and tonal quality before being overlaid with the actors but what a feast for the eyes, beautiful 1950's clean cut clothes suited the subject matter in hand - of Prof George Falconer's loss of the love of his life, the subterfuge and of being 'invisible'. I particularly liked Ford's use of so lttle dialogue and just the visuals to purvey the story itself and very little in the way of conversation to provide those little insights into the characters. Delightful.
Ford reverted to tonals to illustrate when Falconer was sitting on the edge of life with a washed out quality and then vibrant blown out colour whenever he was struck by emotion, it lost it's subltleness in places but was otherwise helped provide that internal view of the character - very simple but effective.
I like Julianne Moore and think this film allowed her to show off her versatility, she has immediate presence and completely filled her short time on the screen.
So Ford has impressed me but Mr Firth more so and I look forward to seeing more of him in the future, I give this film 4*s.
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