A couple of days ago I saw Luca Guadagnino's grandiose melodrama I Am Love. I didn't like it much at all, but I did find it fascinating, so much so in fact that 10 minutes in I whipped out my notebook
"As unrepentantly grandiose and ludicrous as its title, Luca Guadagnino's visually ravishing third feature suggests an epic that Visconti and Sirk might have made after they finished watching Vertigo
Nick Hasted opens the Italian Cinema Special in the May issue of Sight & Sound: "When Paolo Sorrentino's Il Divo and Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah caused a double sensation at Cannes in 2008, Sorrentino
"Everyone Else, a sun-kissed German film about a young couple in love and in doubt, might not be perfect, but so much is right and true in this lovely, delicate work that it comes breathtakingly close
"Austin's most prolific fraternal pairing, the Zellner Bros, are men of many accents," writes Kimberley Jones, introducing her brief interview for the Chronicle. "In their ridiculously funny short
"In every sense, I Am Love is a stunning achievement," declares Jay Weissberg in Variety (where Nick Vivarelli reports on the press conference in Venice). "Luca Guadagnino does more than expertly