Chicago – Critics don’t have any business reviewing films if they aren’t able to admit when they are wrong. I am here to freely admit that I was wrong about “I Am Love.” While it blindsided me at the European Union Film Festival, I detected certain glaring flaws in its plot during the film’s limited theatrical run, which seem to have evaporated upon its magnificent DVD release.
Yes, the film is an unabashed melodramatic romance at heart, requiring the viewer to buy into its less-than-credible flights of fancy. But as an experiment in pure cinema, the film is an extraordinary hybrid of the classical and contemporary. Love is depicted as nothing less than a force of nature, inspiring its central character to evolve into the person she was always meant to be. The film is about revolution rather than repression, and that is its stroke of genius, reflecting...
Yes, the film is an unabashed melodramatic romance at heart, requiring the viewer to buy into its less-than-credible flights of fancy. But as an experiment in pure cinema, the film is an extraordinary hybrid of the classical and contemporary. Love is depicted as nothing less than a force of nature, inspiring its central character to evolve into the person she was always meant to be. The film is about revolution rather than repression, and that is its stroke of genius, reflecting...
- 10/21/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Rating: 4.0/5.0
Chicago – “I Am Love” is the type of visceral tone poem that requires its audience to feel more than think. As the end credits roll, viewers may find themselves going over the plot in their heads, and discovering its inherent shallowness. It’s only after we wake up from a dream that we discover just how silly or inexplicable it all was.
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has created a romance so punch-drunk on passion that it forgets to tell a decent story. Any trashy romance novel available in the bargain box at Borders could probably tell a tale as complex and unpredictable as this one. Once the gears of the plot start grinding away, there’s no turning back. The melodramatic plot twists are a hoot, and threaten to derail the film into all-out lunacy toward the end. But this is one rare instance where a film’s style...
Chicago – “I Am Love” is the type of visceral tone poem that requires its audience to feel more than think. As the end credits roll, viewers may find themselves going over the plot in their heads, and discovering its inherent shallowness. It’s only after we wake up from a dream that we discover just how silly or inexplicable it all was.
Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino has created a romance so punch-drunk on passion that it forgets to tell a decent story. Any trashy romance novel available in the bargain box at Borders could probably tell a tale as complex and unpredictable as this one. Once the gears of the plot start grinding away, there’s no turning back. The melodramatic plot twists are a hoot, and threaten to derail the film into all-out lunacy toward the end. But this is one rare instance where a film’s style...
- 6/25/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In this tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan, the wealthy Recchi family lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef.
At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife, Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo's friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.
The fiercely talented Scottish actress Tilda Swinton sat down with us...
At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife, Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo's friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.
The fiercely talented Scottish actress Tilda Swinton sat down with us...
- 6/18/2010
- MoviesOnline.ca
Chicago – In our latest drama edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the advance Chicago screening of the new film “I Am Love” starring the Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton!
The film also stars Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Diane Fleri, Maria Paiato, Marisa Berenson, Waris Ahluwalia and Gabriele Ferzetti from writer and director Luca Guadagnino. “I Am Love” opens in Chicago on June 25, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “I Am Love” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “I Am Love” with Tilda Swinton.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
Here is the plot description for “I...
The film also stars Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Diane Fleri, Maria Paiato, Marisa Berenson, Waris Ahluwalia and Gabriele Ferzetti from writer and director Luca Guadagnino. “I Am Love” opens in Chicago on June 25, 2010.
To win your free pass to the advance Chicago screening of “I Am Love” courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just answer our question below. That’s it! This screening is on Monday, June 21, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. in Chicago. Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “I Am Love” with Tilda Swinton.
Image credit: Anchor Bay Films
Here is the plot description for “I...
- 6/17/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Images, the trailer as well as the poster are up for "I Am Love." The drama stars Tilda Swinton, Flavio Parenti, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Alba Rohrwacher, Pippo Delbono, Diane Fleri and Maria Paiato. Luca Guadagnino directs from the writing by Walter Fasano, Barbara Alberti and Ivan Cotroneo. The film opens on June 18th in limited areas via Magnolia Pictures. We open on a journey through the idyllic snow covered streets of Milan in the run up to Christmas. We enter a stunning, bourgeois mansion house: the home of the wealthy Recchi family. The families are gathering for a birthday dinner in honor of the patriarchal figure of Edoardo Recchi Sr. We are introduced to Emma, the stylish head of the household who is overseeing arrangements with the servants. With his health in a poor state, Edoardo Sr is preparing to hand over the reigns to the Recchi textile business. It seems...
- 4/5/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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