I saw the Italian film Io soon l'amore (I AmLove) today. It is very good. Done with sort of a French style - lots of panning away from the action keyed to abstract sometimes intense music. It has a very modern score by John Adams.

The film follows a very wealthy Milanese family as the patriarch decides to retire and pass the family fabric company to his son and one of his grandsons. He announces this at an elaborate family gathering for his birthday. There are lots of shots of wonderful food in preparation and presentation, settings in the sumptuous family home in Milan, fancy parties, all screaming wealth and privilege.

The film settles on the wife of the son who is to inherit the business and the son she has (of several and a daughter) that will inherit as well. There is some play on the disagreement between the idealist son who wants to run the business for the good of its employees and Italy and the father who wants to sell it off to an American conglomerate for the money - absolutely against his now dead father's wishes.

However the story really follows the wife who has an affair and falls in love with her son's chef friend and the consequences. The film shows the stark contrast between the older generation's focus on business and success at all costs and strict codes of propriety and the younger generation's focus on the better good for all and doing what is best in love for oneself.

Very good, some explicit love scenes made intense by the musical score and the close-ups, though it is hard to tell what body part you're looking at.

Film is in Italian with subtitles. Very good!