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Very disappointing...

best movie i've ever seen.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

After seeing some glowing reviews for this film I decided to watch it. I am still wondering who could overlook all the flaws. From the very outset, the film sets itself up as an art house slow burner. The old fashioned opening credits move into bleak winter scenes, where all of the outdoor shots appear to be shot in monochrome, reverting to colour for the interior shots. You begin to think that this will become a clever code for the film, but after a few minutes the idea is abandoned. Either that, or the colour grading of the first few minutes was badly messed up or accidentally taken from an alternative cut of the film. We then move to a series of slow scenes that reveal snippets of information. As the meagre plot slowly unfolds, what becomes apparent is the number of terrible edits. There is one where the lead character jumps from a country idyll straight back to the dressing room of her city house (supposedly 2 hours away) without any establishing shot. I assumed she had taken a hotel room somewhere near the country house. There is also plenty of awful camera work, where the usually static shots attempt to pan from one view to another, get stuck somewhere nondescript in between, then awkwardly settle on their intended destination. If I were recording a home movie and got my camera-work this bad, I'd do it again.The potential intensity of the one major sex scene in the film is ruined. The constantly changing camera angles of their bodies, interspersed with multiple pointless shots of flowers, becomes a confusing mess devoid of all heat and passion. Most TV perfume ads are sexier than this.However, after all these unintentionally jarring errors, there is one crowning achievement that trumps them all - the score. From the very beginning of the film, the madly irritating and inappropriate score spoils almost every shot in the film! What should have been quiet, intense moments are obliterated with discordant plinky-plonk 'modern classical' noise. For example, the final few minutes of the film attempt to describe the culmination of the lead character revealing her love affair, against the painfully bleak backdrop of a funeral of a close family member. The scenes are set in the beautiful surroundings of ancient Italian buildings and the characters' palatial city house. So time for some total silence or the merest background hints of minor chords perhaps? But no! Let's turn up the infuriating racket to the max and let the pretentious chin-stroking moron who wrote this abomination of a film score have his moment, showing off his inability to write music for any purpose other than his own satisfaction.As the end credits blissfully arrived, I and others viewing the film were left either in stunned silence or laughing out loud at this dreadfully botched attempt at creating something oh-so-clever. How did they get it so wrong?

I am not a fan of deer in the headlights style acting and Tilda Swinton gives up a great deal of it in this movie. Look at me as I stare blank faced and wide eyed as things, life things are happening around me. If anything redeems this movie somewhat, it's the splendid locations; the gorgeous mansion, the city, etc. The story fails because it does not give us anything to strive for or push against except the malaise, boredom and passivity of the main character who is not very sympathetic. It is hard to root for her, in fact you kind of hope she absentmindedly walks into a door at some point, or miscalculates and shoves an olive up her nose instead of her mouth in the repeated fork journey from plate to face.

Besides its obvious grades in texture and nuance, "I Am Love" transcends normal viewing. Set in Milan, the film boasts some of present-day's most captivating stars and delivers in style. Little known, is the location of one of its scenes. Perched high above bustling San Remo, Castelvittorio is a veritable Italian fortress-town. In the valley, a quaint restaurant brews its own flavour of "Io Sono L'amore". Indeed, the cast can tell you ! "The Busciun" or "Cork", an idyllic family restaurant, serves traditional, and then some dishes cooked with flare by the same hand-picked fingers. May its title and aromas captivate all who ask for it by name ... Visit link below for more : http://nuke.ristorantebusciun.com/ENGLISH/tabid/62/Default.aspx

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.