An impromptu encounter with her son’s friend brings her back to life and hastens the inevitable downfall…
With its grandiloquence and plethora of references (from Visconti to Hitchcock?), Amore embraces all excesses, even at the risk of bordering on showiness, flirting with melodrama before diving into tragedy.
Sets, music, imagery, editing: everything is deliberately emphatic and timeless, surprisingly fluid and visual. Inhabited from start to finish by the haunting score of minimalist composer John Adams, the result is a unique cinematic opus, guided by the extraordinary charisma of Tilda Swinton.
Enchanting to some, artificial to others. We fall into the latter category.
