I Am Love – review

Oscar winner Tilda Swinton stars in a tragic love story from Italian filmmaker Luca Guadagnino
“I Am Love” is a lush, deeply textured banquet of sights and sounds that it deserves more than a movie review. Carefully composed and framed, gorgeously appointed, superbly choreographed and accompanied by a thrilling musical score.
“I Am Love” opens on a snowy evening in Milan, where the wealthy Recchi family has gathered for the birthday of their elderly patriarch, Edoardo . At a dinner overseen with prim propriety by his daughter-in-law Emma, the old man tells the assembled guests that he is handing over the family textile business to his son Tancredi and Emma and Tancredi’s eldest son, Edo .If you are a fan of the Italian Director Luchino Visconti, then this film echo’s so many similarities of this excellent work.