Lark Theater’s Blog

I AM LOVE is back. If you believe that passion conquers all (or if you think that idea belongs in the movies); if you’re into design, food, clothes, jewelry, Italian film or anything else Italian – you will not want to miss this beautiful and juicy film.

Star and producer Tilda Swinton says it’s about the inevitability of change and the indomitable forces of human nature that drive us to change (she talks compellingly about the film, and a few other things, here). In the face of what we gladly admit is probably a golden age of television, she offers this musing on melodrama:

“It’s about noticing behavior in an atmosphere of silence, rather than this preoccupation with the idea of explicit plot and dialogue. Melodrama in cinema used to rely on the idea of atmosphere, and I don’t think it’s been relied on much in the last thirty years. Television simply cannot rely on it in the same way — it can’t play the same game that cinema can.”

I AM LOVE is long on atmosphere and sensuality, from the John Adams score (Adams also composed NIXON IN CHINA, part of our coming Met Opera season) to the lovers rolling in wild herbs – no mere hay – to those famously sexy prawns. There are multiple treats here for all your senses. Enjoy.

And, of course, the big screen comes with a big, lush and lovely sound system, which you’ll want when you see THE CONCERT, because the music is thrilling. This Russian-Romanian-French comedy has been delighting our audience. It is, “at it’s musical center, as full of ripe emotion as Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major. It’s also as darkly funny as a Slavic farce, a composition of sweet cacophony.” Yum!

Hope to see you soon for one or both of these wonderful films.