"I am Love", passion against reason

"I am to love", screened among the films in the official competition of the 9th International Film Festival of Marrakech, the movie eloquently illustrates the eternal dilemma between love and money by giving prominence to desire that will eventually prevail over other considerations.

The story goes on between the walls of the Castle Reccchi, of a wealthy Milanese family. Behind the worldliness of an easy life, Emma, an older wife and a mother is suffering from a horrible monotony and stifled by her marriage and her sense of duty vis-à-vis the others. She might well lead a life like if she didn’t meet with Antonio, a young man from humble origins and a close friend of her son. The two quickly fall in love and follow the "temptation of evil." Appointments are connected and Emma begins to discover the life she has always wanted to lead, a world without makeup and without stones.

Thus the passions, long suppressed, are unleashed at once and end up causing a tragedy. Her son Eduardo learns about her relationship with Antonio. He provokes a scene and then died accidentally. Faced with the tragedy, Emma decides to confess all to her family and take the choice to leave the family castle for the shelter of Antonio. These radical changes leave the family of Emma in the expectation, not knowing which way to turn. While they condemn the neglect of family, behind a tragedy, relatives of Emma still showed her a certain indulgence mixed with pity. This work of Italian director Luca Guadagnino raises many questions about desire, temptation, money, and frustration . Born in Palermo in 1971, Luca Guadagnino spent his childhood in Ethiopia. His first feature film "The Protagonists", was presented at the 56th Film Festival in Venice in 1999. He also directed “Civilizado Mundo” (2003) which was presented at the International Film Festival of Locarno and "Melissa P" in 2005, before working on “I am Love” in 2009.