"I Am Love" - a movie with Tilda Swinton - resounds with the forces of life. The images in the film are often of food, its preparation, tall weeds, decadent Italian architecture, people's faces, sumptuous couture. After watching it, you realize the protagonists were invisible: the forces in the lives of its characters. The audience tries to perceive the main action in the characters' faces, but has to satisfy themselves with just seeing what the camera sees.
The camera itself, which shows in rich, sharp detail a shrimp dish, seems to balk & shake or jerk forward/backward in time a few minutes in certain scenes. The camera's eye, which in movies often acts like the all-knowing narrator's voice in writing, seems often fooled, focusing in on the wrong thing.
I wondered why sometimes the characters mouths moved but you couldn't hear anything. I think it's because this movie doesn't want to tell us what's happening directly through dialog, but through the score by John Adams. The music evolves & crescendos, starting out sounding like a sonata quartet but ending in a modern chaotic symphony, giving away clues the dialog & images don't. I wonder, which came first, the script or the score? Or were they developed simultaneously, each influencing the other?