Overview
A tale of passion and betrayal unfolds within a powerful Milanese family, challenging the boundaries of love and loyalty.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Measured
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Layered
- Violence
- Mild
- sensual
- melancholic
- opulent
- arthouse movie night
- romantic drama night
What critics said
Critics broadly praised Tilda Swinton's central performance, Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous visual style, and its sensual emotional ambition, while noting occasional melodrama and narrative thinness.
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Emma's awakening is closely tied to Antonio's cooking, the restaurant, and intensely tactile food imagery.
Emma's affair and the Recchi family's industrial transition expose conflict between dynastic duty and emotional freedom.
The Recchi mansion, formal gatherings, costumes, and choreographed family rituals dominate the film's visual language.
Emma's secret affair destabilizes a powerful Milanese industrial family governed by etiquette, inheritance, and appearances.
Films like I Am Love, and why
The Leopard
sensuous bourgeois romance, sumptuous visual design, and emotional rebellion against social convention
The Great Beauty
stylized examination of affluent family life, desire, and social transformation
The Piano
repressed upper-class desire, lush period-inflected aesthetics, and family scandal
A Woman Under the Influence
passionate adultery colliding with bourgeois respectability and domestic upheaval
Movie Details
- Director
- Luca Guadagnino
- Release Date
- 2010-03-19
- Runtime
- 120 min
- Rating
- 6.7 / 10 (422)
Cast
- Tilda Swinton
- Flavio Parenti
- Edoardo Gabbriellini
- Alba Rohrwacher
- Pippo Delbono
- Maria Paiato
- Diane Fleri
- Waris Ahluwalia
- Mattia Zaccaro
- Chiara Tomarelli
Where to watch in United States
- Streaming
- Amazon Prime Video, Philo, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
- Rent
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
- Buy
- Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home
Streaming options come from TMDB and change over time.
Common questions
- What is I Am Love about?
- A Russian-born Milanese matriarch risks her place in an industrial dynasty when a sensual affair awakens the life she has suppressed.
- What is I Am Love like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of I Am Love as measured, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as layered.
- Is I Am Love violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in I Am Love as mild.
- What did critics think of I Am Love?
- Critics broadly praised Tilda Swinton's central performance, Luca Guadagnino's sumptuous visual style, and its sensual emotional ambition, while noting occasional melodrama and narrative thinness.
- Which films are like I Am Love?
- Films with a similar feel include The Leopard, The Great Beauty, The Piano, and A Woman Under the Influence.
- How long is I Am Love?
- I Am Love runs 120 minutes.
- Where can I watch I Am Love?
- In United States, I Am Love streams on Amazon Prime Video, Philo, Amazon Prime Video with Ads.
