{"id":826,"date":"2010-09-30T14:05:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-30T19:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=826"},"modified":"2010-10-05T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-10-05T23:38:27","slug":"movienight-thursday-september-30th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"I Am Love, by Luca Guadagnino. I Am Drink, by Ginger Cosmopolitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iamlove.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-839\" title=\"Father, son, and holy Tilda\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iamlove.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iamlove.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/iamlove-300x161.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Director Luca Guadagnino certainly delivered a work of sprawling magnificence with <em>I Am Love<\/em>. Somewhat inexplicably, I felt physically moved at several points during the movie. This could perhaps be attributed to my secondary activity of the evening: perfecting the ginger cosmopolitan! (I think I got it right in the end)<\/p>\n<p>I must confess that I unintentionally misled several guests, telling them that Guadagnino was a young director, and that this was his first feature. I really did think this was the case (where did this notion come from?) but in fact the man is 39, and has made a few features, one of which &#8211; <em>Melissa P<\/em> &#8211; I had the misfortune of seeing. It was a quite dreadful Cumming-of-Age (pun intended) story of a 15 year old girl, replete with graphic sexual abuse. Guadagnino met Tilda Swinton in the nineties, and <a title=\"London Guardian interview\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/film\/2010\/apr\/01\/tilda-swinton-luca-guadagnino-interview\" target=\"_blank\">as the story goes<\/a>, the seed for <em>I Am Love<\/em> was planted soon after. The pair nurtured their &#8220;baby&#8221; until it came of age last year.<\/p>\n<p>Swinton&#8217;s voice was dubbed fairly well, but clever camerawork obscured and confused, making it difficult to notice any audiovisual discrepancies. Her body was also rather well &#8220;doub&#8217;ed&#8221;, to coin a phrase, in a few of her nude scenes&#8230; to her credit, not all. In my opinion, Swinton was an inspired choice (although apparently, there was never another option) to play a Russian beauty who had married into a wealthy Italian industrial family. I totally bought it.<\/p>\n<p>Or was that just the Ginger Cosmo doing the buying?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">More about this film on IMDb  <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1226236\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Luca Guadagnino certainly delivered a work of sprawling magnificence with I Am Love. Somewhat inexplicably, I felt physically moved at several points during the movie. This could perhaps be attributed to my secondary activity of the evening: perfecting the ginger cosmopolitan! (I think I got it right in the end) I must confess that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I Am Love, by Luca Guadagnino. I Am Drink, by Ginger Cosmopolitan<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":849,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}