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| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Ventura Pons |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 30 November, 2001 |
| MANUFACTURER: | TLA Releasing |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Color, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Feature Film-drama, Gay/Lesbian-Themed Film, Movie |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 807839000429 |
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Customer Review of Food of Love
 Innocents Abroad
Getting its title from a Shakespeare quotation-- "if music be the food of love, play on"-- and based on the novel THE PAGE TURNER by David Leavitt, this film is a delicious surprise. Paul Porterfield (Kevin Bishop), an aspiring musician, meets his hero, the concert pianist, Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys), when he is drafted to turn pages for him at a recital. Paul and his mother Pamela (Juliet Stevenson) later meeet Kennington in Barcelona where the beautiful eighteen-year-old is deflowered by the soon-to-be-forty Kennington. In the concert pianist's defense, however, Paul is a most willing candidate to lose his virginity.
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>Under the most capable directorship of the Spanish Ventura Pons, what might have been a disaster becomes a beautiful nuanced love story as well as a tale of betrayal, growing up and self discovery, particularly on the part of both Paul and his mother. Pons handles with delicacy an older man's relationship with a teenager (actually in this instance three older men). The actors, through British, portray American characters without the slighest trace of a British accent, no small feat. My one quibble-- and a minor one-- is that Pamela for most of the movie doesn't have a clue as to her son's sexual orientation or that he is having an affair with the older Kennington. What could she have been thinking-- or not thinking-- when she discovered her son's boxer shorts in Kennington's bathroom? The DVD contains interviews with the director, principal actors and the author David Leavitt, as well as a section of the actual shooting of the film. The scenes in Barcelona, particularly the architecture of Gaudi, will make you either want to visit that magnificent city or make a return trip if you have been before.
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>FOOD OF LOVE deserves a very wide viewing.
 Really awful movie about wealthy gay men, music and intergenerational "love"
The awfully titled "Food of Love" was Catalonian director's Ventura Pons first English-language film, adapted from a not very good book ("The Page Turner") by American David Leavitt. The result, I regret to say, was Pons' worst film to date.
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>The story concerns an 18-year-old aspiring gay pianist, his recently-separated mother and an older pianist with whom he has his first gay sexual relationship during his summer vacation in Barcelona (with his mother). However, this is not a "coming out" film; all the problems are generated by the mother's feeling due to her divorce and, especially, the intergenerational conflicts between the two leading men. (Sex is fairly tame too, and the nudity consists of shots of the young man from behind.)
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>Unfortunately, the movie is poorly scripted (the lines of dialogue are quite laughable at crucial moments) and, worst of all, badly acted. Kevin Bishop, who plays Paul, the young man at the center of the story, gives a really terrible performance. He is cute, though (the blonde, blue-eyed boy type), which may explain why he gets compliments in other reviews and even by David Leavitt (in the interview he gives on the DVD). I'm sure if he were ugly everyone would comment right away on his bad performance. Paul is not a very likable (save physically) or believable character, either. (He also doesnt seem to be having much fun in his sexual relationships and he really mistreats his mother... and she lets him get away with it.)
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>The other male leads give bad performances as well, with zero nuances or depth. To be fair, their dialogue is pretty bad to begin with.
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>The film's only saving grace is the great Juliet Stevenson, who is truly wasted in the poorly written (and cliched) role of the mother who is clueless about her sons (and his lovers) sexual orientation. Still, Stevenson is such a talented(and funny) actress that she manages to make you care about the character by the end.
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>I recommend you skip this and rent any other of Ventura Pons' films. He's an interesting director (hence I checked out this movie) but this film was a misfire from beginning to end.
 Multicultural Music
What should we have expected?
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>David Leavitt's novella "The Page Turner" (really a long short story) has been inflated into a feature film reset from Rome to Barcelona, which also stands in for California and New York. Its characters are all Americans here played by English and Spanish actors affecting Yankee accents (few successfully) and, in one case, a vaguely Russian one.
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>Its Barcelona-based Spanish director, Ventura Pons, for the first time is working in a foreign language, English. His tech crew has somehow botched the sound recording so that the dialogue is almost always out-of-synch (you can't switch on English subtitiles because this DVD has none).
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>Leavitt's story is set in the world of classical music, a subject the author admits (in a disc extra) that he knew nothing about when he began writing. It's real subject matter, however, is gay relationships, something Leavitt knows a great deal about and which this film treats with delicacy and understanding.
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>Any film with the great Juliet Stevenson and Anna Massey (in major and minor roles, respectively) cannot be all bad, and indeed this one isn't. Barcelona has never looked lovelier, nor has the sturdy, blue-eyed leading man, Kevin Bishop, whose character by the end has learned a thing or two about love, talent and ambition.
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>You know a picture is in trouble when the director has to rename it because he suspects that "The Page Turner" in Spanish wouldn't sell in his native country ("Food of Love," now there's a saleable title!) But the title isn't the only thing about this earnest but muddled movie that's hard to buy.
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