I Am Love
2009/It/120mins/Dir: Luca Guadagnino
Cast: Edoardo Gabbriellini, Flavio Parenti, Tilda Swinton
Emma, the matriarch of a wealthy Milanese family, and wife of businessman Tancredi Recchi, lives in a carefully ordered world where her duties towards her husband and children dominate. A chance encounter ignites long repressed passions and sets her on a journey of sexual awakening. But Emma’s freedom is bought at a terrible price as her family slowly splits into a thousand pieces.
Winner of the BIFF Award for ‘Best Feature Film’ 2010
‘An arresting film’ The Guardian