I Am Love (2009)
(Io sono l'amore)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Marisa Berenson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Synopsis:
The sleek, ordered world of a wealthy Milanese industrialist's family is shattered when the matriarch falls in love with the chef friend of her eldest son.
Review:
A supremely elegant piece of film-making in which every detail of the mise en scène has been scrupulously chosen and shot to reflect the rarefied world in which the characters are living, one so vulnerable to disaster. Sequences are cut to the music of John Adams, lending an operatic quality entirely in keeping with the love-affair-across-the-social-divide plot and tragic dénouement. There are nods at directors as diverse as Hitchcock (the Vertigo hair bun), Antonioni (the early films, such as Cronaca di in amore), Visconti (the later films) and Sirk (love with the hired help), as well as a sequence of Lawrentian outdoor lovemaking culled straight from Ryan�s Daughter. Guadagnino is certainly a film buff, as well as a fashion photographer, but these traits do nothing to detract from the film, which is an exercise in style purely at the service of the story and its characters, led by a mesmerising, and co-producing, Tilda Swinton.
(Io sono l'amore)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Marisa Berenson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Synopsis:
The sleek, ordered world of a wealthy Milanese industrialist's family is shattered when the matriarch falls in love with the chef friend of her eldest son.
Review:
A supremely elegant piece of film-making in which every detail of the mise en scène has been scrupulously chosen and shot to reflect the rarefied world in which the characters are living, one so vulnerable to disaster. Sequences are cut to the music of John Adams, lending an operatic quality entirely in keeping with the love-affair-across-the-social-divide plot and tragic dénouement. There are nods at directors as diverse as Hitchcock (the Vertigo hair bun), Antonioni (the early films, such as Cronaca di in amore), Visconti (the later films) and Sirk (love with the hired help), as well as a sequence of Lawrentian outdoor lovemaking culled straight from Ryan�s Daughter. Guadagnino is certainly a film buff, as well as a fashion photographer, but these traits do nothing to detract from the film, which is an exercise in style purely at the service of the story and its characters, led by a mesmerising, and co-producing, Tilda Swinton.
(Io sono l'amore)
Country: IT
Technical: col 120m
Director: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Marisa Berenson, Gabriele Ferzetti
Synopsis:
The sleek, ordered world of a wealthy Milanese industrialist's family is shattered when the matriarch falls in love with the chef friend of her eldest son.
Review:
A supremely elegant piece of film-making in which every detail of the mise en scène has been scrupulously chosen and shot to reflect the rarefied world in which the characters are living, one so vulnerable to disaster. Sequences are cut to the music of John Adams, lending an operatic quality entirely in keeping with the love-affair-across-the-social-divide plot and tragic dénouement. There are nods at directors as diverse as Hitchcock (the Vertigo hair bun), Antonioni (the early films, such as Cronaca di in amore), Visconti (the later films) and Sirk (love with the hired help), as well as a sequence of Lawrentian outdoor lovemaking culled straight from Ryan�s Daughter. Guadagnino is certainly a film buff, as well as a fashion photographer, but these traits do nothing to detract from the film, which is an exercise in style purely at the service of the story and its characters, led by a mesmerising, and co-producing, Tilda Swinton.