For Tilda Swinton, acting remains a mysterious 'habit'
NEW YORK (AP) — In a sleek, luxurious Manhattan hotel room, Tilda Swinton stands and announces that she's bound to break something.
[...] to say she's a chameleon doesn't quite do justice to Swinton's myriad transformations: flickers of flesh that bend with the light or mood, alternatively illuminating her and retreating behind masks.
For a long time, I noticed that the stories I was drawn to making were the stories of people who were caught in a concept of 'OK, that's me' and they came up against a wall and had to transform.
In Luca Guadagnino's "A Bigger Splash," which opens Friday, Swinton plays Marianne Lane, a rock star on the other side of a metamorphosis being pulled back to her prior self.
[...] her jaunty, hard-living producer and former flame Harry (Ralph Fiennes) turns up, along with his newly discovered daughter (Dakota Johnson).
Like a film noir villain, Harry brings with him all her rollicking past, and the foursome settle in for a tense holiday.
"A Bigger Splash" is Swinton's fourth film with Guadagnino, the Italian director of "I Am Love," a lush feast of a movie.
Together, they've pursued what Swinton calls "sensational cinema" where you can almost taste the food or feel the sun on your skin.
Sally Potter's "Orlando," in which Swinton played the long-living poet who changes sexes in midlife, was a fittingly androgynous, gender-defying breakout.
[...] I have no plans.
