I Am Love is a film for those who want to taste the screen and feel the silence. It’s a movie for the dreamers, those who still take long walks on the beach, and despite it shifting tonally completely at the end, it is still a soothing feature.

| Original Score: A | Apr 21, 2025

It demands an audience that desires sumptuousness in their cinema, complete with bravado camerawork and meaningful, metaphoric passages to dissect.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 9, 2023

I Am Love is sensuality distilled, a film that appeals to the senses with temptation, visually, tactfully, gustatory. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 10, 2022

Tilda Swinton is magnificent in this passionate character study of a trapped housewife and her complex family. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 13, 2021

I am Love winds up, in a careless and almost startlingly disappointing fashion, reducing great social tensions to sexual discontents and preferences.

| Mar 1, 2021

I Am Love is a must see for fans of Tilda Swinton.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 11, 2020

The third film by Italian director Luca Guadagnino, somehow manages to enchant my sense of sight with his marvelous visual style, but even that cannot prevent me from fatigued with the tale of emancipation. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 7, 2020

For something that looks so good, I Am Love could have used a seasoning adjustment before hitting the kitchen table.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 24, 2019

A surprisingly typical "unsatisfied housewife" scenario, but set against such a magnificent backdrop, it has every opportunity to transcend its well worn Sirk-by-way-of-Visconti path.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 5, 2019

Visually, the film is an aesthetic joy... The performances are (as far as melodrama goes) both downplayed and elegant, making more than enough room for John Adam's excitable score.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 5, 2018

It's sumptuous, operatic, and swooning with a passion so grand that, like most grand passions, or at least those of other people, it occasionally feels a bit silly.

| May 17, 2018

Before a bizarre, inappropriate happy ending featuring Emma and her chef curled up in a cave, Swinton has effectively left the film, running out in a track suit like she's late to the set of the next Narnia movie.

| Apr 23, 2018

A delicious journey... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 21, 2018

The last five minutes of the film are an extraordinary affirmation of free will and self-worth, and redemption for centuries of female characters forced to sacrifice it all for passion.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 3, 2017

I Am Love is essential viewing for those of us who are astonished by Tilda Swinton's ability to become someone new in every film.

| Sep 18, 2017

anybody who wants to experience cinema at its most cinematic and grand should rush and experience it for themselves. It is a truly stunning motion picture and one that ranks as the best film 2010 has so far offered.

| Sep 15, 2013

The predictable end, which comes with an abruptness that feels altogether too constructed, completes the fantasy of transgression that's at the heart of the movie's appeal, however elaborate the trappings.

| Jun 28, 2013

...a frustratingly uneven bit of over-the-top filmmaking...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 19, 2011

For me the obvious attempts at enhancing lushness, rapture, and emotional swings were not connecting. I couldn't help noticing it was trying too hard.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 1, 2011

Tilda Swinton is both imperious and vulnerable ... in this lush romantic melodrama that harks back to the heady days of Visconti and Antonioni.

| Jan 31, 2011