This one’s been getting rave reviews on its UK release. Have to say, it sounds dull as ditchwater to me, but…
Bold, refreshing and unorthodox as ever in her choice of projects, Tilda Swinton takes the lead in this family drama from Italian film-maker Luca Guadagnino, with whom she has worked twice in the past, on The Protagonists (1999) and The Love Factory (2002). With her vividly otherworldly and almost extra-terrestrial screen presence, Swinton is perfectly cast in this elegant, if over-determined and slightly desiccated piece of cinema. She plays Emma, a beautiful and stylish Russian-born woman who has become assimiliated into the moneyed upper-middle classes of contemporary Milan, by virtue of marrying Tancredi Recchi (Pippo Delbono); this is the wealthy, middle-aged heir apparent to a colossally profitable textile empire founded by the formidable, elderly industrialist Edoardo Recchi Sr (Gabriele Ferzetti). etc etc