Feast of Love

2007 "A story for anyone with an appetite for love."
6.5| 1h41m| R| en
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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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Cubussoli Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!
GazerRise Fantastic!
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Fatma Suarez The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
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
MBunge This is a movie that features the always enjoyable Morgan Freeman and a decent amount of female nudity. Those are pretty much the only real selling points.Feast of Love focuses on a small group of people and the romantic contortions in which they engage. Harry (Morgan Freeman) is a college professor in Portland still coming to terms with a family tragedy. Harry is friends with Bradley (Greg Kinnear), a man who deeply needs to love but is so oblivious to the people he loves he doesn't notice his first wife (Selma Blair) is a lesbian and his second wife is an adulterous bitch. That second wife, Diana (Rhada Mitchell), lets herself be romanced by Bradley because he's so unobjectionable, even though she's really in angry, unhealthy love with another woman's husband. Bradley owns a coffee shop where Oscar (Tobey Hemingway) works, and Oscar falls in love at first sight with Chloe (Alexa Davalos), a coupling not approved of by Oscar's angry and violent father (Fred Ward).I think the point of this story, which was adapted from a novel, is to make you think about the utility of love. At one point, Diana says love is a trick to get people to procreate while Bradley says love is everything. Is all the pain and difficulty of seeking out and pursuing love worth it? I'm not sure the answer offered up is supported by the evidence in the movie.The fundamental problem of this film is that it never settles on a main character. At first, you think it's going to be Harry as the center of this romantically troubled crew. But then the movie focuses on Bradley's first wife and her yearning for a love she doesn't have. But after she leaves Bradley and hooks up with another woman, the movie forgets about her. Then you think the story might focus on Bradley and his recovery from a failed marriage, but as soon as he meets Diana the story focuses almost entirely on her and Bradley becomes a supporting character, until they break-up and the focus shifts again to Bradley. Even with Oscar and Chloe, the story starts out concentrating on Oscar and his poor upbringing but then, for no particular reason, shifts to looking at the relationship from Chloe's perspective and Oscar essentially disappears. As soon as you get interested in a character and their story, the film decides it's done with that person and brings someone else to the forefront.The other significant problem with the film is that it wants to believe that no one ever really gets that angry. It wants us to accept and even endorse a world where Bradley's first wife cheats on him with another woman and his second wife cheats on him with another man, but after his third marriage he can still be friends and pal around with his exes. But when supposedly traumatic personal events don't have any emotional consequences, they don't have any emotional significance either.As for Feast of Love's good points…Morgan Freeman gives another fine performance and, yes, he does narrate parts of the movie. And Selma Blair, Rhada Mitchell and Alexa Davalos all look quite good naked, although there are moments when the movie is so gratuitously showing off their female forms that the only thing missing is a blinking neon sign that says "Nudes! Nudes! Nudes!" Feast of Love isn't ultimately an aggressively bad film. It's just not good enough or perceptive enough to tell you anything about love and heartache you don't already know.
ladyoaks Just watched this movie last night. Did not realize that was Billy!! Loved the movie. Great plot. I would love to watch it again, because I didn't catch the very first part. When I first started watching I thought, OK, is this going to be a horror movie? Some really great acting in this one. I'd only seen Billy in Twilight, but now I realize that I've seen him in several things: just didn't realize it. Great actor!! Morgan Freeman had a great role in this one. Not much he stars in that I don't like. I like how all the characters were spun together through a common thread (Morgan). As I said, really need to sit down and watch it again, from the beginning.
smatysia I suppose some people cannot relate to a movie with no explosions or car chases, so they will not like this one. There were some good performances, but the film is not flawless. The first "love-feast" in the film just sort of drops off the radar screen, after making one wish to know more about how that relationship went. And Morgan Freeman is sort of getting typecast in the old sage role, but at his age, and with that voice, it might be inevitable. While I might not have cared a lot for Alexa Davalos' character, she played it well, and looked great doing it. Same for Radha Mitchell. The film, along with Freeman, muses a lot about the nature of love. If you can stand this type of film it is well worth checking out.