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Critics Consensus: It stumbles into melodrama, but I Am Love backs up its flamboyance with tremendous visual style and a marvelous central performance from Tilda Swinton.
Critic Consensus: It stumbles into melodrama, but I Am Love backs up its flamboyance with tremendous visual style and a marvelous central performance from Tilda Swinton.
All Critics (130) | Top Critics (35) | Fresh (106) | Rotten (24) | DVD (3)
The 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.
There'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.
Despite a superb cast and a fabulous look, the picture collapses under the weight of its lofty pretensions, especially in the black hole of the last act, where it topples into near-absurdity.
If you're not in the mood, the whole thing will probably seem pretty silly. But if you are -- oh, if you are -- I Am Love may be the richest, tastiest truffle you're likely to savor all summer.
The overripe ending, heated by the percolating music of John Adams, is heavy seasoning on a delicate dish.
An intimate, quiet and even slow movie, its subtle shadings veil turbulent emotions.
Visually, the film is an aesthetic joy... The performances are (as far as melodrama goes) both downplayed and elegant, making more than enough room for John Adam's excitable score.
It's sumptuous, operatic, and swooning with a passion so grand that, like most grand passions, or at least those of other people, it occasionally feels a bit silly.
Before a bizarre, inappropriate happy ending featuring Emma and her chef curled up in a cave, Swinton has effectively left the film, running out in a track suit like she's late to the set of the next Narnia movie.
A delicious journey... [Full review in Spanish]
The last five minutes of the film are an extraordinary affirmation of free will and self-worth, and redemption for centuries of female characters forced to sacrifice it all for passion.
I Am Love is essential viewing for those of us who are astonished by Tilda Swinton's ability to become someone new in every film.
Exquisitely directed and acted, with an amazing Tilda Swinton perfectly conveying the discovery of love, this is a beautiful and sumptuous Italian drama that brings to mind the aesthetic and narrative style of Luchino Visconti, growing in a crescendo towards a glorious, explosive end.
Super Reviewer
A bit melodramatic but worth watching.
Excruciatingly slow, overblown melodrama.
Something like Dallas, Italian Style, 3 1/2 Stars 9-24-12
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