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''I Am Love'' ((イタリア語:Io sono l'amore)) is a 2009 Italian film directed by Luca Guadagnino set around 2000 in Milan. The film follows an ''haute bourgeoisie'' family through changing times and fortunes, and its disruption by the forces of passion. The cast is led by Tilda Swinton as Emma Recchi. Producers Swinton and Guadagnino developed the film together over an 11-year period. The title is taken from a line from the aria ''La mamma morta'', which is explored in the film ''Philadelphia'' (starring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington), a scene of which Emma is watching while in bed with her husband, during the film. The film's soundtrack uses pre-existing compositions by John Adams.〔(LA Times, June 18, 2010: ''John Adams lends his music to 'I Am Love,' starring Tilda Swinton'' ) Retrieved 2013-01-06〕 The film premiered in September 2009 at the Venice Film Festival, followed by showings at various film festivals around the world. It first went on general release in Italy in March 2010, followed by the UK and Ireland in April 2010. In the United States it had only a limited release in June 2010, before being released on DVD in October 2010.〔(IMDb: ''I Am Love'' - release dates ) Retrieved 2013-01-06〕 == Plot summary== The wealthy Recchi family are first and second-generation textile manufacturers in Milan. Tancredi Recchi (Pippo Delbono) and his wife Emma (Swinton) are hosting a formal dinner party for Tancredi's still-formidable but ailing father, Edoardo Sr. (Gabriele Ferzetti), patriarch and founder of the family business, who is celebrating his birthday. As the many servants bustle about, the family note with disappointment the news that Edoardo Jr. (Flavio Parenti), Tancredi and Emma's eldest son, lost his race the day of his grandfather's birthday. Edoardo Jr. arrives from his lost race, having informed the family that he has invited a girlfriend. She is Eva, of the prominent Ugolini family, who we learn he apparently plans to marry. Edoardo Jr.'s young adult siblings, Gianluca (Mattia Zaccaro) and Elisabetta, complain of yet again being served "ucha," Edoardo Jr.'s favourite dish - a special soup his mother Emma, who is Russian by birth, made for him in childhood. The grandfather announces he is passing the family business to his son, Tancredi, who has long worked with him, and also, unexpectedly, to Edoardo Jr. At the dinner, Tancredi and Emma's daughter Elisabetta (Alba Rohrwacher), who attends school in London, presents her grandfather with one of her artworks, a photograph, despite a tradition of presenting one another paintings. He is disappointed, but encouraged by his glamorous wife Allegra "Rori" Recchi (Marisa Berenson) to gloss over his disappointment. Later during the birthday celebration, Edoardo Jr. receives a surprise visit from Antonio (Edoardo Gabbriellini), the chef who defeated him in the race earlier that day. Antonio brings a beautiful cake as a gift, and Edoardo, flattered by the gesture, introduces him to his mother. After the party, while Emma is running errands, she discovers a CD, with a note from Elisabetta to Edoardo revealing that Elisabetta is a lesbian. She tells her brother of an encounter with a woman and that she is in love with another woman. Meanwhile, Edoardo Jr. visits Antonio in Antonio's father's restaurant. They later make plans with to open a restaurant together on some property Antonio's father owns in San Remo. Months later, Emma is having lunch at Antonio's restaurant with Eva and Allegra, and she is aroused while relishing a prawn dish he prepares for her. Elisabetta returns to Milan, with her hair cut short, and invites Emma to go with her to Nice to look for a venue for Elisabetta's art exhibition, while making a stop in San Remo where Emma knows she may encounter Antonio. She does spot him, follows him, and runs into him outside of a book shop. She then goes with him to his house in the hills above the city, and their affair begins. Meanwhile, in London, Edoardo Jr. struggles as his father and other family members seek to sell the family business to foreign investors. He visits his sister and tells her of the future of the business and his opposition to the decision. On her second trip to San Remo, under the pretext of discussing a menu for the formal dinner she will host for the foreign investors who are buying the Recchi family business, Emma spends the day with Antonio, and the two enjoy passionate lovemaking. Emma tells Antonio how Tancredi met her during a trip to Russia, hunting art treasures. Antonio cuts Emma's blonde hair, a long lock of which falls unnoticed to the terrace, where Edoardo Jr. finds it during his own subsequent visit after the London meeting. On the night of the dinner for the investors at the Recchi villa, a conversation between Edoardo Jr. and Eva is overheard, revealing she is pregnant with his child. Antonio prepares ukha - whose preparation Emma has described to Antonio during one of their intimate moments. When the servers place this soup before him, Edoardo, recalling the lock of blonde hair, instantly realizes his mother is having an affair with Antonio. He leaves the dinner table in a fury. Emma follows him outside to the swimming pool and tries to talk to him. At this point they talk in Russian. In pulling away from Emma's outstretched hand Eduardo loses his balance, falls, strikes his head on the sharp concrete edge, before falling into the pool. He sustains a cerebral haemorrhage, and dies in hospital. Immediately after the funeral, Tancredi tries to console Emma, but she tells him that she is in love with Antonio. Emma rushes back to her villa, changes her clothes while her housekeeper helps her pack her things to leave. Before she leaves, she exchanges a knowing glance with her daughter, who it appears understands her mother's desire to follow her heart. Meanwhile, Edoardo Jr.'s fiancée, Eva, who had not been noticed by Edoardo's family since his death, clutches her abdomen as she calls out to Eduardo Jr.'s siblings and grandmother, revealing to them her pregnancy. When the family members look back into the foyer where Emma was standing, she is gone. Emma and Antonio are seen in a slow motion scene lying together inside a cave. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「I Am Love (film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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