Luca Guadagnino’s self-described “Deie” trilogy starts here, with the story of a wealthy family of Milan industrialists. I Am Love (2009) opens in snow-swept winter – the chilly gray a startlement when you think of the sun-blasted eroticism of follow-ups A Bigger Splash and Call Me by Your Name – but things heat up considerably when family matriarch Emma (Tilda Swinton) slides into an affair with a young chef. She’s seduced by his food first, naturally. This was Guadagnino’s international breakthrough, and its casual gorgeousness – in composition, faces, and the unbounded luxury the Recchi family so takes for granted – will look like dynamite screening in 35mm at the Paramount. – Kimberley Jones
