120 mins | Luca Guadagnino | Italy | 2009 | M sex scenes

As wife to the heir in a wealthy Milanese family, Tilda Swinton is at the centre of this lush Italian drama.

“Tilda Swinton is ridiculously enjoyable to watch… dressed in colours you want to drink, and exploring her puzzled, porcelain allure in ways that make the screen fairly quiver… It’s a sensational performance, but the excitements of this pulse-quickening, exotic bird of a film… neither begin nor end there.” — Tim Robey, The Telegraph

“An exquisite, all-enveloping feast of sensual pleasures. It’s almost certainly the most elegant piece of cinema you’ll see this year.” – The Times