I Am Love
As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino’s visually stunning third narrative feature suggests an epic Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo and reading Madame Bovary while gorging themselves on aphrodisiacs. Further enticement (as if any were needed): Tilda Swinton, in yet another bravura performance, stars as an unhappy, unfulfilled Russian wife of a Milanese industrialist and mother of three adult children whose passions are awakened when a man prepares her a plate of perfectly seasoned shrimp. As her impeccably arranged chignon unravels and her salmon-colored finery shucked, it's impossible not to succumb to the operatic sweep.
– Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice
It revels in a comprehensively elegant aesthetic: painterly compositions, lush lighting, graceful camera movements, fluid transitions, palatial settings, classical typefaces and brash scoring (by John Adams, no less!). Every luxurious frame is steeped in awesome Old World, and Old Cinema, magnificence. And yet it's modern-minded.
– Henry Stewart, The L Magazine
Original name: I Am Love / Io Sono L´Amore
Duration: 120 min
Dialogue: English, Italian
Subtitles: Finnish and Swedish
Age limit: K15
