Colin Firth gives one of the best performances of the year as a broken-hearted professor who has lost his lover of 16 years in the early 1960's. Excellent performances by Julianne Moore (who looks ravishing), Matthew Goode and Nicholas Hoult. While Tom Ford has done a masterful job in his first directorial bid, the movie is almost too art-directed and nuanced. Very minor criticisms, however. Worth seeing.