SIFF press preview 1
May. 5th, 2010 02:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ironymaideni didn't make the Monday shows and may not get back out this week due to work committments (and since i want to save up some time and energy to possibly see the Iron Man 2 midnighter).
anyway, i thought i was going to see a movie about ecstasy-dealing Hasidim but they had done a schedule switch and i got the Italian family drama instead.
I am Love is one of those films that i would only watch at a festival.
it excels in showing but not telling. the plot and relationships are revealed by actions rather than dialogue. it has a soap opera plot (family business power struggle, sekrit homosexual, adultery, death) filmed with an artist's eye, set to a score lifted from Nixon in China. it's one of the few films to convey the ecstatic experience of eating great food, and i admire that. in general it's visually sumptuous and as always i want to be Tilda Swinton (in this case, a Russian-expat MILF) when i grow up.
it is perhaps a less accessible Best of Youth meets Douglas Sirk.
i wouldn't buy a ticket, but you could do worse if you have an empty slot before the next film in the same theater.
anyway, i thought i was going to see a movie about ecstasy-dealing Hasidim but they had done a schedule switch and i got the Italian family drama instead.
I am Love is one of those films that i would only watch at a festival.
it excels in showing but not telling. the plot and relationships are revealed by actions rather than dialogue. it has a soap opera plot (family business power struggle, sekrit homosexual, adultery, death) filmed with an artist's eye, set to a score lifted from Nixon in China. it's one of the few films to convey the ecstatic experience of eating great food, and i admire that. in general it's visually sumptuous and as always i want to be Tilda Swinton (in this case, a Russian-expat MILF) when i grow up.
it is perhaps a less accessible Best of Youth meets Douglas Sirk.
i wouldn't buy a ticket, but you could do worse if you have an empty slot before the next film in the same theater.
