Tilda Swinton has revealed that she is pleased with the Oscar whispers that currently surround her movie I Am Love.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino the movie is a tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and...
A tragic love story set at the turn of the millennium in Milan. The film follows the fall of the haute bourgeoisie due to the forces of passion and unconditional love.
Swinton also produced the movie and has helped her friend Guadagnino get the movie into production.
She told Deadline: "Having worked on this film for 11 years and made it in Italy with my best friend, I've been astonished that it got any distribution at all let alone widely in the States and very well reviewed in the States.
"It's wonderful to us that people are even still talking about the film, let alone still seeing it.
"On the one hand, it's this whole melting pot thing where people start jettisoning their memory of all sort of fantastic films. On the other hand, I suppose people start remembering things that they liked."
And while Swinton is happy with the response that the movie has received she admits that she is disappointed that Italy did not chose it as its entry for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars.
"In a funny way we the producers were not surprised. We were disappointed, but we were not surprised. I had no idea what the criteria were that the selection committee were going by.
"We thought the Oscars is an American affair, and it's an American prize, and we thought that maybe it would be a good idea to choose a film that had gone well and at least been distributed in America, let alone been well received."
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