Feast of Love

2007 "A story for anyone with an appetite for love."
6.5| 1h41m| R| en| More Info
Released: 28 September 2007 Released
Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.feastoflovefilm.com/
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A meditation on love and its various incarnations, set within a community of friends in Oregon. It is described as an exploration of the magical, mysterious and sometimes painful incarnations of love.

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GamerTab That was an excellent one.
VividSimon Simply Perfect
Lumsdal Good , But It Is Overrated By Some
Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.
SnoopyStyle Harry Stevenson (Morgan Freeman) is a professor in Portland dealing with his son Aaron's death along with wife Esther (Jane Alexander). He befriends coffee house owner Bradley Smith (Greg Kinnear). Bradley has been married to Kathryn (Selma Blair) for six years. He's clueless to her falling in love with Jenny (Stana Katic) two feet away. He tries to force a dog on cynophobic Kathryn and she leaves him. Oscar (Toby Hemingway) works in Bradley's café. Chloe (Alexa Davalos) is a new hire. They quickly fall in love. Oscar is a recovering addict living under his abusive father Bat (Fred Ward). The lovers move in together struggling to make ends meet. Bradley falls for real estate agent Diana (Radha Mitchell) but she is in a secret affair with married David Watson (Billy Burke).I don't like Bradley. I find him annoying. He's playing the smiling fool. He's clueless and pathetic. His stunt with the dog is particularly annoying. That's some passive aggressive stuff. He is suppose to be lovable but I find him off-putting. I appreciate the other parts of the movie and the general theme of tragedy of love. Morgan Freeman is once again playing the wise black man although it does work well with Chloe. This is a nice try.
Armand Series of questions. Details of ordinary life. Puzzle of existences crumbs. Game of facts and expectations. A film about essence of our days. Not more. But the delicate nuances and the splendid Morgan Freeman interpretation makes this film a travel in the hidden corners of basic searches. Feelings and hesitations, the past as gray blankett, options and the formula of happiness are pieces of advocacy for real image of world. A film interesting for the traces who leaves. Not special but a sentimental hot chocolate. A show about the correct place of things. A story about people and a great teller. The essence is love but it is only builder. The pictures, the flowers, the bed or the wallpaper color is ours. The questions are only seeds. And the fruits are result of special work of a neighbor
j-lacerra This compelling little movie delivers plenty of character involvement. These are people in or near love. Love is not always good to them. The stories are told in a number of plot tracks that interweave and eventually intersect. One of the two main characters, Bradley (Kinnear), is a kind and open sort who has no luck at love. His first wife leaves him for a woman, and his second leaves him for her previous lover, now suddenly free. The other main character,Harry (Freeman) is nursing his grief over his own tragic loss of an only son.Another track follows the young couple, Oscar and Chloe (Toby Hemingway and the stunning Alexa Davalos), who marry and are happy until tragedy strikes them as well. There is a lot of tragedy in this movie.The picture is shot, paced, and acted excellently, as directed by old pro Robert Benton. It plays out like an intelligent soap, with scenes cutting between the various couples. It is the kind of movie where you do not want it to end because Benton has made these people friends, who you care about.Good script, with very few holes. The most glaring is the start of a new romance for Bradley with the doctor in the ER after he intentionally almost severs his finger. I think the last thing ER docs do is get personally involved with patients. And the absolute last thing they do is get involved with a patient who has purposely injured himself. My only other almost-gripe is that it seems that Morgan Freeman cannot be in a movie without narrating it. A non-gripe is that there is also some relatively frequent nudity, much of which seems gratuitous. I tolerated it.These minor gripes aside, rent it and enjoy it. It is not really a chick-flick, so enjoy it with someone you care about.
bandw We follow the intimate relationships between Harry and Esther, Bradley and Kathryn, Chloe and Oscar, Diana and Bradley, Jenny and Kathryn, Diana and David, and Bradley and Margit. I guess that justifies the movie's title, but it's a bit much to expand on in a little over and hour and a half. We hardly get to know any of these people more than superficially.Bradley (a proprietor of a small coffee shop in Portland, Oregon) is at the center. Before the movie is over he has gone through two women and is on his third. Diana describes him as not stupid or inconsiderate, not obnoxious or violent, not boring, not a bad dresser, not unemployed, and not unhandsome. She also remarks that an absence of disqualifiers is a rare thing. But in the end that is not enough for her, and it is not enough for us. What is it that makes Bradley interesting? We do not see. He is supposed to be an artist by avocation, but we never see any of his work. We don't know what interests him besides his feeling that "love is everything."After over six years of marriage Kathryn leaves Bradley for Jenny. When Jenny picks Kathryn up in her jeep and says, "Oh, man, we're going to have adventures, you and me," we are interested and would like to see *that* movie. But that's about the last we see of those two. Instead we go back to the rather uninteresting Bradley. There are other occasional scenes where the movie comes to life, like scenes between Diana and David--getting to know those two would also have proved interesting. Who are all these people? We never get beyond the surface. Perhaps we get to know the story of an older professor (Morgan Freeman) and his wife as well as any other, but it gets a bit tiresome seeing Freeman pop up every ten minutes or so dispensing wisdom and philosophy. Then there is Oscar's ridiculous alcoholic father who is jealous of Oscar's relationship with Chloe to the point of threatening her with a knife several times, the last time because he blames her for his son's death from a congenital heart defect. That doesn't make much sense.The thing that most impressed me were the lighting and framing, particularly in scenes of couples in ordinary settings. There are also several sex scenes that are nicely filmed.