A Single Man Soundtrack

My true holiday music selection this year is turning out to be Polish composer Abel Korzeniowski’s score for A Single Man. The film goes wide tomorrow and is very worth the price of admission, full of eye-popping 1960’s elegance and texture. Forget however you feel about designer-cum-director Tom Ford; this is a beautiful film, even if every detail seems meticulously staged.

Abel Korzeniowski’s score celebrates strings to a dreamily nostalgic degree as the film tracks a day in George Falconer’s (Colin Firth) life eight months after the sudden death of his partner Jim (Matthew Goode). It’s classical, but tie-loosened and unstuffy, filled full with moments of sweeping sorrow and triumph. There is also the addition of some Etta James (“Stormy Weather”) thrown in the middle to really take you back. Goosebumps.

No Christmas music here—this is what I’ll be listening to.