A Single Man: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack |  | Artists: Various Artists, Abel Korzeniowski, Shigeru Umebayashi
Label: Relativity Media
Category: Music
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Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 966
Format: Soundtrack
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
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Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5
MPN: 700203
UPC: 854727002034
EAN: 0854727002034
ASIN: B0030ATZHG
Release Date: January 5, 2010
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| • | STILLNESS OF THE MIND by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | DROWNING by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | SNOW by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | BECOMING GEORGE by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | GEORGE S WALTZ (I) by Shigeru Umebayashi | | • | DAYDREAMS by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | MESCALINE by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | GOING SOMEWHERE by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | A Variation on SCOTTY TAILS MADELINE by Shigeru Umebayashi | | • | CARLOS by Shigeru Umebayashi | | • | LA WALLY by Miriam Gauci | | • | STORMY WEATHER by Etta James | | • | GREEN ONIONS by Booker T. & The MGs | | • | BLUE MOON by Jo Stafford | | • | SWIMMING by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | AND JUST LIKE THAT by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | GEORGE S WALTZ (II) by Shigeru Umebayashi | | • | SUNSET (Bonus Track) by Abel Korzeniowski | | • | CLOCK TICK (Bonus Track) by Abel Korzeniowski |
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Product Description
A Single Man is based on the novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood. Set in Los Angeles in 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis, it is the story of a British college professor (Colin Firth) who is struggling to find meaning to his life after the death of his long time partner. The story is a romantic tale of love interrupted, the isolation that is an inherent part of the human condition, and ultimately the importance of the seemingly smaller moments in life.
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Amazingness January 3, 2010
Brian R. Tucker (Valdosta, GA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Absolutely the best soundtrack I've heard in several years. The songs are haunting, yet they invite you in to listen to each and every one of them. I listened to clips from the movie's website before I saw the film, and appreciated the soundtrack more while viewing it. The song from the swimming scene is especially powerful. If this doesn't win the Oscar for Best Soundtrack, I don't know what will. Thank you, Tom Ford, for insisting on a great soundtrack for your directorial debut.
Best Soundtrack of the year January 16, 2010
Tom Liebengood
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This is such a beautiful soundtrack which captures the mood and undertone of Tom Ford's stylistic directorial debut wonderfully and insightfully with a moving, melancholy score. The score's effect is similar to another beautiful soundtrack, Pollock. I highly recommend the film and the soundtrack.
Enticing music January 27, 2010
Paris Huang (Washington, DC United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Great combination of the atomsphere of "In The Mood for Love", european films, and 60's music. Very enticing and melancholy, really brings out the state of mind of the characters in the movie.
And then there is the music August 2, 2010
Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
So often when viewing a film as fine as A SINGLE MAN the components that add to the story and the acting and the direction, if they are truly well done, go unnoticed. And perhaps that is the real mark of a fine musical score: it underscores the mood and propels the story along without calling attention to itself. But after repeated viewings of this particular film on DVD the music finally can be appreciated for what it is.
The personality of George, so very shattered by the news that opens the film, is captured by the beauty of Abel Korzeniowski: he understands when to use silences, when to meld the aqueous memories of swimming underwater with the solitary moments of this stoic man who have just been notified that his partner of 16 years has been killed. He turns to his own music (Miriam Gauci singing the beautiful aria "Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Catalani's opera LA WALLY - a song about leaving home for the last time - just the right aria for a man who is planning his suicide), and as his mind remembers the beautiful times with his love Jim the music becomes impossibly beautiful - a mixture of full orchestra with interludes of piano alone.
The story, being set in the 1960s, also makes use of old standards form Jo Stafford ('Blue Moon'), Etta James ('Stormy Weather') and the fun of George dancing the twist with Charley (Charlotte) to the tune of 'Green Onions' by Booker T. and the MGs. In addition to the subtleties of Korzeniowski's score, there are moments with the brief but eloquent music of Shigeru Umebayashi is introduced as contrast. Overall the mixing and the musical foundation fits the magic of this superb film and offers the sound forum for the acting gifts of Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode, and Nicholas Hoult. A fine CD all by itself - for memory's sake. Grady Harp, August 10
Mesmerizing January 11, 2010
Lilly Wheaten (Atlanta, GA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is the most amazing soundtrack! I find myself listening continuously over and over to the entire CD.
I can not wait to see the film!!! If the film is as good as the soundtrack, it will be a winner!!!!
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