A movie that lifted me off the ground into another world. Io Sono L Amore is one of those movies that just took my breath away and kept me floating for days. Still remember the sunshine on my face when I walked out the cinema. Really felt heavenly!Didnt know anything about this movie when I went into the movietheatre. I must admit that the story is too complicated to rewind, but "Io Sono L Amore" is all about the feelings that will rush over you once you get hooked. It is very slowpaced. Very delicate. Very European. So maybe you wont get hooked, because there is no other director that splits audiences in half as much as Luca Guadagnino does. If you are the moviegeek type however, who loves arthouse films, then I will strongly recommend this legendary epic too you. If you are the impatient type who wants fast plot turns then you might want to reconsider. But what the heck, I am not the patient type either, but I still loved it more than any other movie in years. Would be such a shame if you would miss out on one of the most delicate and wonderful epic movies of the last decade. What do you think? No dont think, take a chance!....So there I was, outside of the cinema afterwards, bathing in the sunlight, feeling glorious and dumbfounded at the same time. I had just witnessed one of the most emotionally intense movies in years. Oh how do I love "Io Sono L Amore" !!!

Is it just me? OK so the husband deserves to be cheated on. He is neglecting his wife like all the rest of these movies. Somehow, the wife is cheating, as always because it's her husband fault. Somehow, like all the rest of these cheating wife movies, It's never the wife's fault for not expressing her dis-satisfaction of her life. It's never the wife's fault for not communicating what she is missing. Skipping the whole idiotic melodrama.In the end, this harlot, is not held accountable for causing the death of her son as he tries to pull away from her after he figured out, his mother, is having an affair with his partner of a restaurant and much younger man. A man as old as her son. The stupid movie ends with her telling her husband she loves the son's partner. The maid starts to pack her stuff. She leaves with nothing and you see her and her lover living happily ever after in a cave? Is this for real? Your time is not worth it.

After seeing some glowing reviews for this film I decided to watch it. I am still wondering who could overlook all the flaws. From the very outset, the film sets itself up as an art house slow burner. The old fashioned opening credits move into bleak winter scenes, where all of the outdoor shots appear to be shot in monochrome, reverting to colour for the interior shots. You begin to think that this will become a clever code for the film, but after a few minutes the idea is abandoned. Either that, or the colour grading of the first few minutes was badly messed up or accidentally taken from an alternative cut of the film. We then move to a series of slow scenes that reveal snippets of information. As the meagre plot slowly unfolds, what becomes apparent is the number of terrible edits. There is one where the lead character jumps from a country idyll straight back to the dressing room of her city house (supposedly 2 hours away) without any establishing shot. I assumed she had taken a hotel room somewhere near the country house. There is also plenty of awful camera work, where the usually static shots attempt to pan from one view to another, get stuck somewhere nondescript in between, then awkwardly settle on their intended destination. If I were recording a home movie and got my camera-work this bad, I'd do it again.The potential intensity of the one major sex scene in the film is ruined. The constantly changing camera angles of their bodies, interspersed with multiple pointless shots of flowers, becomes a confusing mess devoid of all heat and passion. Most TV perfume ads are sexier than this.However, after all these unintentionally jarring errors, there is one crowning achievement that trumps them all - the score. From the very beginning of the film, the madly irritating and inappropriate score spoils almost every shot in the film! What should have been quiet, intense moments are obliterated with discordant plinky-plonk 'modern classical' noise. For example, the final few minutes of the film attempt to describe the culmination of the lead character revealing her love affair, against the painfully bleak backdrop of a funeral of a close family member. The scenes are set in the beautiful surroundings of ancient Italian buildings and the characters' palatial city house. So time for some total silence or the merest background hints of minor chords perhaps? But no! Let's turn up the infuriating racket to the max and let the pretentious chin-stroking moron who wrote this abomination of a film score have his moment, showing off his inability to write music for any purpose other than his own satisfaction.As the end credits blissfully arrived, I and others viewing the film were left either in stunned silence or laughing out loud at this dreadfully botched attempt at creating something oh-so-clever. How did they get it so wrong?

A huge, artsy,  elegant Italian extravaganza of a film featuring immaculate, expensively stylish clothing, a big rich family and the 'power of love'.  In a nutshell, the mother falls in love with one of her son's friends, they meet secretly and have lots of sex with frenetic insects and windblown flowers waving about in the background.  Son figures out his mother is having an affair, they have a tiff, she follows him outside and he falls in the swimming pool and dies.  Family distraught; big funeral; wife tells hubby she's in love with Antonio, hubby says 'you no longer exist'.  They go home, wife packs a bag (or rather, maid packs it for her) and she leaves, but not without giving a meaningful look to her lesbian daughter - the only one who 'understands' true love?  The end.  Very enjoyable to watch what with all the gorgeous clothes and Italian scenery but a disappointingly unclear ending.  What happened?  Does she set up house with lover boy?  Do they live happily every after? Was the moral simply 'find true love and bugger your family'?   Arrg!   I must know more!