Tag Archives: Luchino Visconti

I Am Love – Grand passions: Forbidden love amid Italy’s upper class

Posted on 14 September 2010 by Jason Best

A lush romantic melodrama that harks back to the heady days of Visconti and Antonioni, I Am Love is blessed with a contemporary star who pulls off the film’s grand passions magnifcently. Tilda Swinton plays Emma, a Russian-born woman who … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | I Am Love – Ice queen Tilda melts in passionate Italian melodrama

Posted on 9 April 2010 by Jason Best

With her upper-crust poise and aloof beauty, Tilda Swinton looks perfectly at home in the elegant patrician world depicted in Italian director Luca Guadagnino’s remarkable film I Am Love (Io sono l’amore). When the movie opens, we find her supervising … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Time Regained – Raul Ruiz’s masterly screen version of Proust: as delicious as a Madeleine dipped in tea

Posted on 7 September 2009 by Jason Best

For years, the cognoscenti have agreed on two things about Marcel Proust’s epic 2,500-page, seven-volume semi-autobiographical novel A la recherché du temps perdu – it’s the greatest novel ever written and it’s un-filmable. Over the decades, the challenge of putting … Continue reading →

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