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| Feast of lesbian love: Selma Blair and Stana Katic in a doomed affair. |
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| Radha Mitchell bares all. Never again, apparently. |
Bad news on the doorstep:
It's not that these relationships aren't interestin, for they are.
Rather, it offers neither real solutions nor ideological perspectives
that we haven’t seen before. Greg Kinnear’s loser character finds
himself cheated on repeatedly, with no plausible reason as to why he is
compensated when he eventually is. Alexa Davalos’ drifter character
discovers the need-is-love love-is-need maxim, with no plausible reason
as to why she ignores it. The worst is when Radha Mitchell’s promiscuous
siren role is paraded with such glory (along with an overdose of skin)
without offerin any real meanin or depth to her contribution. The characters in
Feast Of Love are annoyingly moral-neutral, invitin dislike even before scepticism.This must go down as an ugly blemish in director Robert Benton's CV, which includes classics such as Superman (1978) and Bonnie And Clyde (1967).
Perennial wonderment:
How does Ebert do it? He astutely points out that director Robert Benton has made better movies about doomed
marriages (Kramer vs. Kramer, 1979)
but this one has no organic reality because it depends on three
artifices: (1) the clockwork success and failure of relationships, (2)
the need for Morgan Freeman as a witness, (3) the lickety-split time span that
compresses the action so much it loses emotional weight.
I can't remember if I cried:
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| Erika Marozsán's Hollywood debut. Poor girl. |
Most memorable line:
"There is a story about the Greek gods. They were bored, so they invented human beings, but they were still bored, so they invented love. Then they weren't bored any longer, so they decided to try love for themselves. And finally they invented laughter, so they could stand it."
Watch out for:
"There is a story about the Greek gods. They were bored, so they invented human beings, but they were still bored, so they invented love. Then they weren't bored any longer, so they decided to try love for themselves. And finally they invented laughter, so they could stand it."
Watch out for:
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| Radha Mitchell's nude scenes keep this movie relevant on DVD shelves today. |
Amacam joker, berapa bintang lu mau kasi?
Pardonin the cuts (that might have changed this into a four star movie, maybe), it's still puzzlin to see Morgan Freeman sweat so much over so little. Everybody makes their lives more important than they are; and so does the movie. Light-hearted films like Love, Actually (2003) had the humour at least but Feast Of Love is slow with nowhere to go, makin us wonder even harder about the sex that we missed. On a Malaysian screen, this turned out to be no feast at all. A silly snack, more like. The sort of love we get here is like GSC's caramel popcorn – easy to digest and just as easy to forget.★★
Bonus material:
Pardonin the cuts (that might have changed this into a four star movie, maybe), it's still puzzlin to see Morgan Freeman sweat so much over so little. Everybody makes their lives more important than they are; and so does the movie. Light-hearted films like Love, Actually (2003) had the humour at least but Feast Of Love is slow with nowhere to go, makin us wonder even harder about the sex that we missed. On a Malaysian screen, this turned out to be no feast at all. A silly snack, more like. The sort of love we get here is like GSC's caramel popcorn – easy to digest and just as easy to forget.★★
Bonus material:
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| Where can I buy the matching black underwear Radha Mitchell wore in this movie? The bra and panties set was more memorable than the movie! |
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