Tilda Swinton stars in I Am Love

Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love premieres at the Sundance Film Festival this Friday, Jan 22.

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[I Am Love] follows the wealthy Italian Recchi family as they celebrate the birthday of their patriarch, Eduardo Sr., who surprises them with his pick to succeed him as head of his industrial company. Into this volatile mix is thrown Tilda Swinton, starring as Emma, a Recchi by marriage, who falls in love with her husband’s business partner. (New York Magazine)

Luca Guadagnino’s “I Am Love” starts off dynamically, even with its old-fashioned credits and majestic symphonic flair. No coincidence, the film is a modern melodrama, both sweeping and constrained, that blooms slowly. Like the director’s muse, Tilda Swinton, who worked on the project with Guadagnino for seven years. (THR)