Tell me whi i am review9/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Tilda Swinton-the woman with a secret, as ever a headlong audience surrogate, though this time going easy on the mystical quirk. So, it might be said, is any coup de foudre when viewed coolly-and I Am Love is indeed predicated on the rush, intent on intoxicating and stunning through grand sweeps and pulse-quickening urgency, architecture and nature made vertiginous, and, above all, putting the melo back in melodrama through the sinus-clearing power of composer John Adams. On first viewing, the literally spotlit epiphany of desire that a plate of shrimp triggers in the film’s main character seems glorious-actually, it seemed a bit much at the time, too, but you went with it-yet with distance and time, it plays as blunt and more than faintly ridiculous, like many of the film’s flourishes. ![]() In the cold, hard light of morning, Luca Guadagnino’s breakthrough feature feels less like a rapturous love affair than a pleasurable but functional one-night stand the details of which may grate and embarrass but over which one ends up obsessing, for good reasons and bad.
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