I am Love
Tilda Swinton is the perfect Milanese sauce. See it if you admire nuance, complexity, food, and the sometimes torturous emotions of contemporary life.
This film is a Bolero. It starts slowly. Painfully slowly. I was ready to go out and get some popcorn, pay my bills, and answer all my e-mails in order to have something to do while the director built layer upon layer of setting and character. I'm glad I didn't.
Like the long, seductive foreplay in a Bolero, the layers are necessary for the emotional intensity one experiences as the action (finally) begins.
Few films have handled the themes of alienation, greed, and the changing of the guard as masterfully.
I loved the plot line. The camera sweeps intended to portray Swinton's vertigo were distracting. The sets, costumes, and acting were elegant.