
Over two decades ago, Emma left Russia to follow Tancredi Recchi, the man who had proposed to her. Now a member of a powerful industrial Milanese family, she is the respected mother of three: two sons, Edoardo who is engaged to Eva and Gianluca that are businessmen and their lesbian daughter Elisabetta that lives in Nice. Emma, although not unhappy, feels confusedly unfulfilled. One day Edoardo becomes partner in a restaurant with Antonio, a talented chef and Edoardo's friend... (Full plot summary below)
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Over two decades ago, Emma left Russia to follow Tancredi Recchi, the man who had proposed to her. Now a member of a powerful industrial Milanese family, she is the respected mother of three: two sons, Edoardo who is engaged to Eva and Gianluca that are businessmen and their lesbian daughter Elisabetta that lives in Nice. Emma, although not unhappy, feels confusedly unfulfilled. One day Edoardo becomes partner in a restaurant with Antonio, a talented chef and Edoardo's friend and Emma has a love affair with him. It does not take long before she embarks on a passionate affair with the sensuous young man. When Edoardo discovers the affair of his mother there is a tragedy that will affect the Recchi family.
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| Time OutDave CalhounIt's a bold experiment rooted in tradition. It plays like smart opera and looks like a marriage of poetic documentary with classical European drama. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Tim RobeyTilda Swinton is ridiculously enjoyable to watch in the Italian drama I Am Love, dressed in colours you want to drink, and exploring her puzzled, porcelain allure in ways that make the screen fairly quiver. |
| TheFilmFile.comDustin PutmanIn a modern filmic sea too often characterized by superfluousness and apathy, I Am Love is something of a miracle. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeA film I wasn't waiting for by a filmmaker I was unaware of just shows up and blows me away. I like that. |
| Film.comJonathan F. RichardsThere's no getting around the fact that this is elegant soap opera,. It won't appeal to every taste. But it's sensational to look at, powerfully acted, and delivers a bang for the emotional buck. |
| San Diego Union-TribuneAdam GoldThere is never a moment the viewer isn't on edge; so much tension mounts over the film's two-hour running time, the entire audience literally gasped as the end credits began. |
| CinematicalTodd GilchristA glorious epic that feels a little bit like Luchino Visconti's The Leopard by way of Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia |
| Metro Times (Detroit, MI)Jeff MeyersGorgeous, utterly ravishing cinematic wallpaper |
| Wisconsin State JournalRob ThomasYou get the feeling Guadagnino wanted to send the same thrill up the spine of jaded modern moviegoers that audiences got at the movies a half-century ago, and in this "I Am Love" succeeds wildly. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesThe grand architecture of Milan and the icy rhythms of composer John Adams set the tone for this elegant Italian drama about the suffocating power of family, wealth, and tradition. |