Colin Firth’s ‘A Single Man’ – This year’s ‘Revolutionary Road’?

I have no problem proclaiming my adoration for Colin Firth. He’s romantic, gorgeous, and just makes female viewers fall in love with him every time he’s on screen.

That’s why I’m so geeked about “A Single Man,” a Tom Ford-directed film which has already scored several film festival awards this year.

Set in Los Angeles in 1962 at the height of the Cuban missile crisis (“Mad Men”!), the movie follows George Falconer, a 52-year-old British college professor (Colin Firth) who’s struggling to find meaning in his life after the death of his long time partner, Jim (Matthew Goode). We follow George through a single day, where a series of events and encounters leads him to decide if life is worth living.

George is consoled by his closest friend Charley (Julianne Moore), a 48-year-old beauty wrestling with her own questions about the future. A young student of George’s, Kenny (Nicholas Hoult), who is coming to terms with his true nature, stalks George as he feels in him a kindred spirit.

I love this time period, and it almost sounds like this could be this year’s “Revolutionary Road,” though hopefully not such a downer. Here’s Firth talking about the movie, which hits select theaters Dec. 11, 2009.