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I Am Love (Io Sono L’Amore) to Close JDIFF 2010

04 Dec, 2009

I Am Love (Io Sono L’Amore) confirmed to Close the 2010 Jameson Dublin International Film Festival with Director Luca Guadagnino and star Tilda Swinton to attend the screening.

The Jameson Dublin International Film Festival is delighted to announce that the Closing Gala for the 8th Jameson Dublin International Film Festival will be Luca Guadagnino’s beautiful feature film I am Love (Io Sono L’Amore), with the director Guadagnino and the star Tilda Swinton to attend the screening.

Gráinne Humphreys, Director of Jameson Dublin International Film Festival comments: “While the finishing touches are being applied to the programme for next year’s Jameson Dublin International Film Festival, I wanted to lift the red curtain and reveal that our Closing Night Gala is something exceptional. Recalling Visconti’s The Leopard, Luca Guadagnino’s superb I AM LOVE (Io Sono L’Amore) charts the fractures and fissures as a wealthy Milanese family comes to terms with a changing world. With a compelling central performance by Tilda Swinton (in fluent Italian), a supporting cast led by the wonderfully aristocratic Marisa Berensen, luminous photography and an exquisite score of John Adams’ music, director Guadagnino has succeeded in producing one of the best films of recent memory”

The closing gala will undoubtedly be an exciting end to the festival, which will also include a concert of iconic film scores by world-renowned Italian composer Nino Rota, best known for his collaborations with celebrated directors such as Federico Fellini and Francis Ford Coppola.  Celebrating the 50th anniversary of La Dolce Vita, this enchanting event will present a selection of Rota’s most loved work, including: La Dolce Vita and The Godfather.  La Dolce Vita will also be screened during the festival.

About I AM LOVE (Io Sono L’Amore)
Propelled by some terrific writing and beautiful performances, particularly by lead Tilda Swinton, Luca Guadagnino’s I Am Love (Io Sono L’Amore) is an intriguing film of great formal elegance with much simmering underneath its patrician surface. Set in Milan’s upper classes, in the Art Deco villa of a family of great wealth, this is a film about repression and breaking free. Reminiscent of the Douglas Sirk and Visconti themes of an earlier film age, from its 50s-style opening titles set over a snow-covered Milan to its John Adams scores, I Am Love, plays out like a modern-day Italian take on Gosford Park.

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