George belongs to the same minority as they do: he is gay.įord has created a highly stylised, hermetically sealed world, controlled down to the last cufflinkįord claims his story is universal. As he speaks, some of the male students in the class shift uncomfortably in their seats. George, an English lecturer, uses his classes on Aldous Huxley as the pretext for musing on paranoia, political repression and hidden minorities. It's 1962, the height of the Cuban missile crisis, and another day in the life, perhaps the last day of the life, of Firth's character. The fashion designer Tom Ford's debut feature - designed with equal elegance and a fastidious attention to detail - has snared an Oscar nomination for Colin Firth as a British academic In Los Angeles battling depression after the death of his long-time lover.
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