One our our most anticipated films of the year is Luca Guadagnino and Tilda Swinton's forthcoming "I Am Love." The film centers on Swinton's matriarchal protagonist as she is caught between her wealthy industrial Italian household, the Recchis, and a forbidden love affair with a young cook which threatens to turn her affluent family upside-down. Here's the synopsis from the official site:
I AM LOVE tells the story of the wealthy Recchi family, whose lives are undergoing sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr., the family patriarch, has decided to name a successor to the reigns of his massive industrial company, surprising everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi, and grandson Edo. But Edo dreams of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio, a handsome and talented chef. At the heart of the family is Tancredi's wife Emma (Tilda Swinton), a Russian immigrant who has adopted the culture of Milan. An adoring and attentive mother, her existence is shocked to the core when she falls quickly and deeply in love with Edo's friend and partner Antonio, and embarks on a passionate love affair that will change her family forever.Promotion for the film has been bolstered by some staggeringly beautiful trailers set to some gorgeous music by composer John Adams. Well, the soundtrack for "I Am Love," will get a proper release by Nonesuch Records in advance of its limited opening in the US on June 18th. Hitting stores on June 15th, has a selection of music from previous John Adams works that are featured in the film. For us, it's the first time we're hearing some of this stuff and it's absolutely great. You can can listen to snippets of the score at the Nonesuch site right now. To see when "I Am Love" will hit your town click here.
"I Am Love" Soundtrack Tracklisting
1. Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
2. Century Rolls: I. First Movement (excerpt)
3. Lollapalooza
4. Shaker Loops: III. Loops and Verses
5, Shaker Loops: IV. A Final Shaking
6. The Death of Klinghoffer: Desert Chorus
7. Fearful Symmetries (excerpt)
8. Harmonielehre: Part II. The Anfortas Wound
9. Harmonielehre: Part III. Meister Eckhardt and Quackie
John Adams "Chairman Dances" (Excerpt)
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"I am Love" was released in Ireland a couple of months ago, and it is melodramatic, lyrical and esoteric right down to its post credit sequence. Second only to "Enter the Void" in my personal cinematic highlights of the year so far.
Saw I Am Love a few weeks back in London (think it is still on at one or two screens).
Tilda Swinton is superb as you would expect and it a beautiful and atmospheric film although it does stray a tiny bit into over indulgence at times.
Saw it at SFIFF in the elegant Castro theatre. It's pretentious and melodramatic and pulls it off in every way. Feels like early Bertolucci circa "The Conformist."
"Bertolucci circa 'The Conformist.' "
uhh, huge boner.
I too saw this film at the SFIFF - I was blown away by it. Can't wait to see it again, can't wait to own the soundtrack.
What really surprised me was reading an interview with Tilda Swinton (who co-produced and developed the film as well as starring) where she said certain key scenes were choreographed and edited to John Adams' music. So, to put it mildly, it was a rather tense couple of weeks when Swinton & Guadagnino approached Adams -- who has turned down every other request from film-makers for permission to use him music -- and screened a rough cut for him. They'd have been boned if he'd hated it, instead of helping negotiate clearances that were affordable for a pretty modestly budgeted European arthouse film.
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