'"A few times in my life I have experienced moments of crystal clearness in which, for a few brief seconds, silence drowns out the noise and I can feel instead of thinking. And everything seems very defined and, the world clear and fresh, as if everything had just been born. It is impossible to make those moments last. I cling to them; Then they vanish, like everything. I have lived my life in those moments, they transport me back to the present, and then I realize that everything is just as it has to be "- George. SUNRISE A Single Man is the film adaptation of the homonymous novel written by Christopher Isherwood in 1964. Filmed in 2009, the film marked the directorial debut of famed fashion designer Tom Ford, which featured the inestimable talent of Colin Firth, the chameleon Julianne Moore and the promising Matthew Goode to weave an old-fashioned love story, an existential drama and an elegy to the heart. George, the protagonist of the film, is a respected English university professor who faces the apathy of a life beyond love, condemned to loneliness and nostalgia after the death of his partner. During the course of a single day, George faces the impregnable pendulum of his emotions, the uneasiness and hope, the nerve and the pause, the promise of a tomorrow and the conviction of a rotten present in his yesterdays. A story of hurt skin and uncontainable tears. Unlike in most current productions, the role of music in this film is of pressing importance. It is not a me