I Am Love (2009) on Netflix
Emma left Russia to marry Tancredi Recchi and lives among Milan's textile dynasty as the mother of three. Her son's friend Antonio, a chef, joins the family's birthday celebration.
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Plot summary
Emma came from Russia after Tancredi Recchi proposed to her, and the pair settled in Milan, where she has raised three children in the family that owns a textile firm. She is not unhappy, yet something in her is unfulfilled. On the birthday of Tancredi's father, founder of the business, the company passes to Tancredi and, unexpectedly, to Edoardo, the eldest son. Antonio, a chef who beat Edoardo in an athletic competition that day, arrives at the celebration with a cake. Edoardo later plans to open a restaurant with him. On a drive toward Nice, Emma stops in San Remo, finds Antonio, and the two begin an affair.
Cast
- Emanuele Cito Filomarinoas Gregorio Sanfelice
- Giangaleazzo Visconti di Modroneas Andrea Tavecchia
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- Ginevra Notarbartoloas Rachele Piermarini
- Liliana Floresas Liliana Macedo
- Jimmi Carlos Zuniga Maciasas Joso Macedo
- Piero Castellinias Sig. Gralierni
- Claudia Monicelli Bagnarellias Sig.ra Gralieni
- Gaia Chaillet Giustias Beatrice Tavecchia
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about I Am Love (2009)
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- The soundtrack is made entirely of pre-existing John Adams pieces; Swinton said the film was built around the music, and that Adams, who had never allowed his music to be used before, said yes when they asked him after finishing the film.
- Much of I Am Love was shot in the Villa Necchi Campiglio, a 1930s Milan mansion designed by Piero Portaluppi; the film family's name Recchi echoes that of the Necchi family who owned it, and Tilda Swinton called it "part palace, part museum, and part prison."
- The Recchi family in I Am Love is largely based on the aristocratic Castellini Baldissera family, and Piero Castellini Baldissera appears in a cameo role multiple times throughout the film.
- I Am Love is the first installment in Luca Guadagnino's self-described Desire trilogy, preceding A Bigger Splash (2015) and Call Me by Your Name (2017).
- The film's title comes from a line in the aria La mamma morta from Umberto Giordano's opera Andrea Chénier, which is also explored in Philadelphia, a scene from which Tilda Swinton's character watches in bed with her husband.
