17 July 2010

I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009)

7/10
Attractive-looking film starring Tilda Swinton as a woman married into a powerful Italian family, and whose actions threaten to burst it apart at the seams. Swinton is great and everything is well-acted, but there was a lot of ebb and flow in terms of keeping my interest - sometimes I was hooked, sometimes I was bored. But I have to say, the last couple of scenes in the movie are so bracingly powerful and brilliantly filmed they almost make up for everything that precede it. But I didn't feel the tension that was supposed to build throughout at all times, so I have to dock it a couple of points there.

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