My Grading System

A+ = Masterpiece (I hold back on this one.) / A = Great. / A- = Really Good. / B+ = Good. / B = Decent (Serviceable). / B- = Flawed but okay (For those times there's something redeeming about the work). / C+ = Not very good (Skip it). C = Bad. / C- = Awful. / F = Complete Disaster (I hold back on this one too).

Note on Spoilers: I will try to avoid ruining a story by going into too much detail. But if I wish to include some revealing points to my analysis I will try to remember to add a separate spoiler paragraph.

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

I Am Love [Io sono l'amore] (2010)

It's strange when I see one movie and the next one is so similar.  I just watched All That Heaven Allows and today I see a kind of modern version of it.   How crazy is that?  This Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino stars Tilda Swinton as the wife of a rich textile manufacturer.  She lives a simple and wealthy life with her three children.  Then she discovers that her daughter is a lesbian and this triggers in her the realization that she never loved her husband.  Enter her son's good friend and chief whom she falls in love with, and you have a grandiose love story that celebrates, like a great opera, the beauty and tragedy of love.  Grade: A-. 
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