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Boring

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

A movie that lifted me off the ground into another world. Io Sono L Amore is one of those movies that just took my breath away and kept me floating for days. Still remember the sunshine on my face when I walked out the cinema. Really felt heavenly!Didnt know anything about this movie when I went into the movietheatre. I must admit that the story is too complicated to rewind, but "Io Sono L Amore" is all about the feelings that will rush over you once you get hooked. It is very slowpaced. Very delicate. Very European. So maybe you wont get hooked, because there is no other director that splits audiences in half as much as Luca Guadagnino does. If you are the moviegeek type however, who loves arthouse films, then I will strongly recommend this legendary epic too you. If you are the impatient type who wants fast plot turns then you might want to reconsider. But what the heck, I am not the patient type either, but I still loved it more than any other movie in years. Would be such a shame if you would miss out on one of the most delicate and wonderful epic movies of the last decade. What do you think? No dont think, take a chance!....So there I was, outside of the cinema afterwards, bathing in the sunlight, feeling glorious and dumbfounded at the same time. I had just witnessed one of the most emotionally intense movies in years. Oh how do I love "Io Sono L Amore" !!!

After watching Brian De Palma's ultra-stylish film Passion on BBC iPlayer,I decided to have a look at what other titles were on the page.With having warm memories of her from the Narnia films,I was excited to spot a non-Narnia title starring Tilda Swinton on the page.Reading a good review by a fellow IMDber,I decided it was time to find out who love is.The plot:Gathering up the rest of the Recchi family to tell them about what is going to happen to their business, ailing Edoardo Sr. announces that he is passing the business over to Tancredi Recchi and Edoardo Recchi Jr. During the gathering,a number of the family members complain about the meal that their mum Emma Recchi has made for them-which is Edoardo Recchi Jr's favourite meal.Picking up a CD which was given to Edoardo by Elisabetta Recchi,Emma finds a note in the CD from Elisabetta which reveals that she is a lesbian.As time goes by from reading the note,Emma starts having a deep desire to experience pure love with a man other than the wealthy elite Edoardo Sr.View on the film:Learning Italian and Russian fluently for the third of her collaborations with co-writer/(along with Barbara Alberti/Ivan Cotroneo & Walter Fasano) director Luca Guadagnino, Tilda Swinton gives a magical performance as Emma.Looking regal in the extravagant dresses,Swinton displays a real care in peeling the materialistic streams running down Emma,to unveil Emma's gloriously raw belief in love.Coming down from the sky,director Guadagnino & cinematographer Yorick Le Saux present give the city and the Recchi family an immaculate,chic design appearance.Breathing in the riches from the Recchi's surroundings, Guadagnino pours over every tiny detail in the Recchi's lives as lavish overlapping shots reveal the cold distance that the Recchi's have between each other,and also paints every drop of hollow red and gold decadence that the Recchi's possess in an ultra-stylisation shine.Whilst this detailed approach works in the look of the title,it also disappointingly leads to the screenplay feeling rather detached,due to the distance that Emma has over finding her true feelings of love leading to their being a distance between the viewer and Emma,which leads to the love not burning with the passion that I am love desires.

I Am Love looks beautiful, that much is obvious. It has some really exquisite cinematography, snippets of pieces of John Adams' music that are used brilliantly, and a fine cast. The story is rather simple and straight-forward but never generic, but the directing of the film is perhaps what makes it really watchable and oddly soothing. Tilda Swinton is fantastic here, peeling off layers of her characters as the film goes on and reminding us of her greatness. This is one of her best performances, and for that I think she didn't get nearly enough notice. The last 5 minutes are amazingly entertaining, and although it could have easily ended on a note of failure, instead it just makes the finish that much more satisfying. Definitely recommended.

"I've nothing left to say." Krzysztof Kieslowski said when asked why he stopped making film. Luca Guadagnino has "something to say" but we're all ears that much or just fascinated with this fabulous images!. I think this conflict was greatly illustrated in a surrealistic way with this Philadelphia scene and operatic venture in the background, the look in Emma's eyes was louder than words, she's suffering in a silent mode after delivering parties smoothly to the others, some how she's thinking of breaking this silence but only in her conceptual imagination. Emma do not talk that much in Guadagnino script but you are totally attracted to her in a conceptual way. Once Emma touched by pain she's not the same, and Guadagnino made his touch of perfection on his masterpiece when she's gone.