Saturday, June 26, 2010

My Kind of Movie


I saw the movie I Am Love tonight, an Italian drama directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring the eerie and amazing Tilda Swinton. If I told you that I was so utterly transported I contemplated leaving my husband and family to start a new life, would you believe me?

This is the kind of movie that one rarely sees anymore. It's an homage to old films and filmmakers, particularly Hitchcock and Visconti, but it's got almost an amoral streak. There's a scene during which the entire theater literally gasped, and a relentless and almost reckless pace that sweeps you along. It's ridiculously beautiful and romantic and, like I said, transporting.

When I left the theater and drove home in the late afternoon sunlight I thought of people I once knew, of the person I once was, of the person that I still might be.

13 comments:

  1. I love anything that gets me to ask those questions.

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  2. Now THAT sounds like a great movie.

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  3. if only we had chosen such a film, instead of the unexpected epic drama, that played out across our personal screen.
    ours was a movie worth walking out of, but instead we allowed ourselves to be carried away. all that and no popcorn.
    i would have to give it four thumbs down.

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  4. I'll have to find it. Thanks.

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  5. just watched the trailer...
    wow.

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  6. Thank you for the splendid review! I will have to check it out...I am ready for a transport via a movie.

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  7. tilda swinton AND waris ahluwalia.

    sounds delicious.

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  8. hmmm... will have to wait for netflix as this kind of movie never makes it up here to the boon docks.

    something to look forward to

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  9. Wow, I've gotta see that. I could use some good transporting and I love that it made you think of the person you once were and might still be. Powerful!

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  10. maybe it's just because of the title, but that is a movie that i really look forward to watching. it looked absolutely brilliant when i saw the trailer, but SA is not very hot on art movies, so i will have to wait for it to come out on dvd.

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  11. a movie like that takes me days to recover from.
    the photo looks like Grace Kelly doesn't it?
    (I love her bag)

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  12. I'll probably never see this film. I can't believe that the person I used to be would spend most of her nights at the cinema. And I still remember all the films.

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  13. Loved it. That scene with her maid - astounding. So many, really. Such a lush movie and she's brilliant.

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