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This film, a romance mostly but not, has everything. Luca Guadagnino's

Io sono l'amore / I am Love (2009)

The musical score, and that is what it totally is, composed by John Adams. Sometimes it seems he is directing the film, so close is the action and the musical "mood", a lousy word but you know what I mean.

It has Tilda Swinton as the star. My god. Tilda Swinton who makes every, every film she is in her own, every. And that is OK with me. That does not mean she is always Tilda Swinton, no. She is, in this case, Emma, the Russian born wife of an Italian industrialist and the mother of his sons and one daughter. She runs the household, even folds the socks. with the help of faithful servants of course but she keeps her hand in.

It has Edoardo Gabbriellini as the chef she falls in love with. Yes, a chef. Gabbriellini had not acted at this point. He was a director and friend of Gaudagnino. He got the part because they couldn't find "anyone else who could cook". I think some of this is interview hyperbole. It also has Luca Guadagnino who plays the most adored son and bromantically involved friend of the chef. Conflicts here. Slightly or more than slightly homoerotic.

But who would know. They are all buttoned up, this rich, rich family. Emotions on the back burner. Business first.

Then Swinton who was sort of aquired as a wife finds this earthy chef who works with his hands, has an intensely sexy air about him and who falls in love or lust with her and it becomes love. Intense.

There is a lot of great romantic stuff in here. Good sex whether you prefer gay or straight. It is all hetero of course but Swinton is pansexual and so is the chef Gabbriellini. This is conveyed most beautifully.

Milan in winter, the beautiful San Remo in summer. Beautiful and, I must bring it back to the music.

Very good "features" on this disc. I would almost buy this to get my hands on the interviews and the deleted scenes.

It is the third time through I think. A 5 out of Netflix5.

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