Cinema: I Am Love
Dir: Luca Guadagnino / Italy / 2009 / 119mins / Cert:16
Riverbank Arts CentreNewbridge
Event Details
- Mon 13 Dec 2010
- 8.00pm
- Cost: €6 (non-members)
- Venue Details
Riverbank Arts Centre
Main St.
Newbridge
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Edoardo Gabbriellini, Pippo Delbono, Alba Rohrwacher and Marisa Berenson
Language: Italian
The polished rooms of a Milanese villa ignite with anxious activity as the wealthy industrial family, the Recchis, prepare to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch. The handsome grandson, Edoardo, introduces his new girlfriend; his sister presents another piece of her artwork to her grandfather; and the grandfather, knowing this is his last birthday, names the successor to his empire. As the refined familial machinations unfold, the woman of the house, Emma Recchi (Swinton), skates along the tight seams of the family, exuding elegance and uncertain turbulence.
A feast for the senses, Luca Guadagnino’s magnificent film I Am Love possesses a vibrant and formally irreverent style that luminously articulates its themes of passion and constraint.
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