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Here's a Movie for the Summer
Family, food, fabrics, footwear. Set it all in Milan in a fabulous villa - the Medicis would kill (maybe they did) for this place - and stir in an outstanding performance by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and you got yourself a summer feast. It's called I Am Love and it is one of the better movies I've seen in a while.
Oh, I forgot to mention the love affairs, corporate intrigue and shocking death.
The Recchi family is wealthy - boy are they wealthy - and mother Emma (the Swinton role) is obviously the stabilizing glue in this group. Still Emma, even though she is the core of the family, seems strangely remote. It could be because she is a Russian-born transplant brought to one of the fashion capitals of the world, Milan, and married into a family with more money than good sense. She says at one point that when she came to Italy she ceased being Russian. Nonetheless, she's made her peace, it seems, with her bloodless businessman of a husband and presides over the family household staff and fabulous dinners with elegance and grace. Until.
Until, that is, she falls completely, and with shocking speed, under the spell of her son's close friend, an ambitious chef who dreams of opening his own restaurant. It's hard to believe that a scene with a young cook showing an older woman how to use a torch to brown food could be, well, erotic, but you need to see it.
Before you can say "three minute egg" Emma has tossed her Ferragamo's and shed her classy outfits to roll around in the grass with Antonio.
The New York Times review said: "By the end of this often soaringly beautiful melodrama, which closes with a funeral, Emma’s face will have crumpled into a ruin. But it will also be fully alive, having been granted, like Pygmalion’s statue, the breath of life."
The film is in Italian and Russian and should further establish Tilda Swinton as a major, major talent. The love scenes and party scenes are pretty good and the food wasn't bad, either.
Here's a Movie for the Summer
Family, food, fabrics, footwear. Set it all in Milan in a fabulous villa - the Medicis would kill (maybe they did) for this place - and stir in an outstanding performance by Academy Award winner Tilda Swinton and you got yourself a summer feast. It's called I Am Love and it is one of the better movies I've seen in a while.
Oh, I forgot to mention the love affairs, corporate intrigue and shocking death.
The Recchi family is wealthy - boy are they wealthy - and mother Emma (the Swinton role) is obviously the stabilizing glue in this group. Still Emma, even though she is the core of the family, seems strangely remote. It could be because she is a Russian-born transplant brought to one of the fashion capitals of the world, Milan, and married into a family with more money than good sense. She says at one point that when she came to Italy she ceased being Russian. Nonetheless, she's made her peace, it seems, with her bloodless businessman of a husband and presides over the family household staff and fabulous dinners with elegance and grace. Until.
Until, that is, she falls completely, and with shocking speed, under the spell of her son's close friend, an ambitious chef who dreams of opening his own restaurant. It's hard to believe that a scene with a young cook showing an older woman how to use a torch to brown food could be, well, erotic, but you need to see it.
Before you can say "three minute egg" Emma has tossed her Ferragamo's and shed her classy outfits to roll around in the grass with Antonio.
The New York Times review said: "By the end of this often soaringly beautiful melodrama, which closes with a funeral, Emma’s face will have crumpled into a ruin. But it will also be fully alive, having been granted, like Pygmalion’s statue, the breath of life."
The film is in Italian and Russian and should further establish Tilda Swinton as a major, major talent. The love scenes and party scenes are pretty good and the food wasn't bad, either.
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