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It's 4 degrees in Melbourne and today I feel like seeing something utterly beautiful and engaging, so I'm going to the Kino Cinema to see I am Love (Luca Guadagnino, 2009). The female protagonist is played by Tilda Swinton, who I last saw in the Coen Brothers film Burn After Reading (2008). I have to say that although she's given many memorable performances I really admired her in a little known science fiction film called Technolust (Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2002). Swinton played the character of a scientist called Rosetta Stone who inserts her own DNA into three Self Replicating Automatons. These clones are released from their confines to have have sex in order to obtain the Y chromosome from semen, which keeps them alive. However, the men they couple with are infected with a strange virus that overtakes their bodies and their computers. The play on the number three is interesting here, for the Rosetta Stone found in Cairo in 1802 had three different languages inscribed upon it. In I am Love, Swinton plays Emma Rechi a Russian émigré married into a wealthy Milanese family. The film is about passion and transformation ~ something hot to watch on a very cold Melbourne day.