A Review: I Am Love

"Happy? 'Happy' is a word that makes one sad. . . Why aren't you happy?"

I Am Love. A line taken from the song, "La Mamma Morta" as sung by the legendary Maria Callas, one of my favorite singers. In this beautiful aria from Andrea Chénier,    Maddalena is conveying her feelings and past to Gerard, who vies for her affections. 

She sings to him of her hopes for life, for love, for beauty and grandeur in the world after living sickly and poor through the horrors of the French Revolution. 

Tilda Swinton is directed by Luca Guadagnino (Melissa P.) as a Russian expatriate wed into a wealthy Italian family. It doesn't taker her long to fit in, and acclimatize to her new lifestyle as the wife to a Milano Textile Manufacturers. The grandfather announces at his birthday party his retirement as head of the family company, Recchi. He names his son Tancredi, and grandson Edo, as his replacements. 

From this moment on, the events of the film begin to truly unfold, and that's we're I'll leave it, and only speak cryptically of the things I'll reference.