After seeing "A Single Man" a film for which Colin Firth will, most likely, get his first and richly deserved Oscar nomination, I felt the urge to see "Apartment Zero" again. I remembered it as a film that opened my eyes to certain aspects of my own nature and thought/felt that Colin Firth was actually playing me. I hadn't seen the film since because that kind of experience is unrepeatable and I could never imagine that the experience could live up to my memory of it. Well,it did. More than that, I discovered so much more than I didn't remember or that, possibly, I didn't get at the time. Colin Firth's performance is infinite. Strange word to describe a performance but seems very apt to me now. He moves within his closeted universe like someone who knows every inch of it and therefore we become as familiar with it as he is. Frightening, sad and, at times, hysterically funny. A masterpiece. Now years later I can actually call it that. A masterpiece. A film that has revealed other layers with the passing of time. I'll be rooting for Colin Firth at the Oscars 2010 and I'll be thinking of his Adrian LeDuc.
Review of Apartment Zero
