Oh so very arty, Tom Ford.

But unfortunately not enough plot and sense to back that art up. Pretty to look at. But lots of holes. (Every gay male is an adonis. Oh wait, that’s true, right? Haha. The bar down the street has the same bartender now that it had 16 years ago. Colin Firth ages but his partner doesn’t. Etc, etc.) And the whole “he’s grey with misery” but “now he pinks up, alive with life” camera/film technique got old, pretty fast.

But there was lots of nice grain and soft light. And pretty pretty boys. Mmmmmm Matthew Goode. (I highly recommend the film “Imagine Me & You” (available on DVD. a very favorite.) if you want to see him get to do more than he does here.)

It vaguely reminded me of the book “The Line of Beauty” by Alan Hollinghurst (read back in 2004 so my memory of it is quite vague indeed) but that may just be b/c of the whole gay melodrama more than anything else (set in totally different times).