I AM LOVE

Guadagnino announced himself with this gloriously operatic romance: Swinton plays Emma Recchi, wife of a well-off Italian executive, who unexpectedly falls in love with a friend of her son, and effectively abandons her privileged life for him. Not only does she act in Italian (although her character is Russian-born, presumably to gloss over any awkwardness of accent), she carries the full emotional charge of this impassioned film.