Io Sono l'Amore is an Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino and starring Tilda Swinton. This film featured beautiful cinematography, especially in the first few opening sequences, further developing its rich use of colour. These screenshots hardly do it justice. I adored the grandeur of the scenes and the acting was superb. Tilda Swinton even learnt Italian with a Russian accent for her role, but she just seems like such a witch in her films and in interviews. Flavio Parenti who plays her son, Edoardo Jr., on the other hand is marvellously handsome and charming. Io Sono l'Amore is a sumptuous film that reveals just how destructive such decadence and selfishness can be.
'In the oppulent world of Milan's upper class, the Recchi family have it all - wealth, beauty, taste, and reputation. Their life is governed by exotic multiple-course meals and discreet staff, by extravagant parties and exclusive labels. When Edoardo Senior (Gabriele Ferzetti), the family patriarch, decides to name a successor to the reigns of his industrial company, he surprises everyone by spitting power between his son Tancredi (Pippo Delbono), and grandson Edo (Flavio Parenti). But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), a handsome and talented chef. When Edo introduces his Russian mother, Emma (Tilda Swinton), to Antonio, sparks fly, and the pair soon embark on an affaire gastronomique, which could spell the fall of this powerful dynasty.'
