I am Love
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An Italian movie beautifully filmed with a tragic love theme. What more could one ask for viewing on a winter’s evening. The fact that my sister and I, women of a certain age, and others similar to ourselves got the giggles towards the end of the movie may attest more to our pragmatic natures than to the overblown melodrama of this film.
The storyline is promising, a middle-aged woman, the mother in a family of very rich Milanese fabric makers at the turn of this millennium, is bored with her life and turns to a younger man, the friend of her son for companionship, good food and heaps of sex. Sam from Sex and the City, eat your heart out. This woman did not seem to need those hormones to keep her desirable and very ummm, agile in bed, or wherever the two lovers may have been at any time.
But, as with all good/bad morality tales, there is always a price to be paid for such happiness. Tilda Swinton plays the protagonist and looks fabulous in the simple clothes elegant (and rich) Italian women wear with such ease and style.
The winner in the film is the cinematography with the long lingering looks at Milano in all seasons, San Remo and the Italian countryside in summer and the rather ethereal love scene at Antonio the lover’s country hideaway.
The losers are the story and the characters that are not fully formed.
My rating, a disappointing 2 stars.
