I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2010)

[knives]

Thank heaven this isn't going to be an other Bright Star situation. Saw this over the weekend and the production design melted my eyes in the first scene alone. Really curious what they'll have to say on the commentary especially in regards to Betta.

[jesus the mexican boi]

I finally caught this on instant Netflix and was hooked from the get-go. I agree with Michael that it's a well-trod storyline -- Tutti Che Il Cielo Permitta -- but there's such attention to detail, such a sensuous/sensual, tangible/textural quality to the film I fell into the world, from the architecture of the cities (seeming nods to Antonioni) to the patterns of nature, the disconnect between them played out in the human lives of these characters. I enjoyed it immensely. Swinton was fearless, as usual.

[rohmerin]

I have just watched it.
Great film, not a masterpiece for me because one big but. The pretty obvious and unnecessary open air sex encounter with the bees, and nature. It freaked me out

I agree, it's really beautifukl, Tilda's great (not her boobs), her Russian accent speaking Italian is inmaculate (I'm not Italian but I can recognize it), Liguria seems a paradise, the exquisite approach to detaills is attractive, the outfits are wonderful, Marisa Berenson like always is the greatest icon in clas and style.

The 1st supper when the family comes together to thank the grand father is similar to Visconti's The damned beggining, and that's all the Visconti's touch I noticed in the whole film. I reaffirm that Teorema is mayor modell, come on, even the servant woman cries and cries as Laura Betti did. The love is the Terence Stamp's bomb in this film that beaks all.

One descendant from the maesto appears. Vogue says: Giangaleazzo Visconti di Modrone, a modern art gallery owner, playing the part of the household's superintendant.

The actor who plays the cook is a star in Italian drama theatres, my friends said.

I have to rewatch it, may be in a double session with Louis Malle's Damage, close to this one. :-"

[knives]

I agree, it's really beautifukl, Tilda's great (not her boobs), her Russian accent speaking Italian is inmaculate (I'm not Italian but I can recognize it), Liguria seems a paradise, the exquisite approach to detaills is attractive, the outfits are wonderful, Marisa Berenson like always is the greatest icon in clas and style.

for some reason I thought she was dubbed over. Are you sure it's her voice?

[rohmerin]

Good point.
Sorry, I don't know, I' m not familiar with her voice from Orlando or her American films.

[John Cope]

I think it is her real voice. I seem to remember she and Guadagnino making reference to this in the commentary.