Synopsis
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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Cast
- Morgan FreemanHarry Stevenson
- Greg KinnearBradley Smith
- Radha MitchellDiana Croce
- Billy BurkeDavid Watson
- Selma BlairKathryn Smith
- Alexa DavalosChloe Barlow
- Toby HemingwayOscar
- Stana KaticJenny
- Erika MarozsánMargaret Vekashi
- Jane AlexanderEsther Stevenson
Recommendations
- 75
ReelViews
Feast of Love's greatest strength is that it's about people and involves universal emotions. It's not great art but it is enjoyable soap opera. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film, with its intersecting vignettes, might ultimately feel like more of a sampler platter than a sustaining smorgasbord, but it's effectively rooted in a lovely Morgan Freeman performance. - 70
Variety
Septuagenarian director Robert Benton brings his characteristically fine touch with actors and appreciation for the female form to this tastefully erotic ensembler, but compassion finally outstrips insight in a drama as soft-headed as it is soft-hearted. - 67
Christian Science Monitor
Most of the love in Feast of Love is unrequited, untapped, or unfulfilled. The fine cast, which includes Jane Alexander, Selma Blair, and Radha Mitchell, is also somewhat underused. - 63
USA Today
The story teeters on the edge of soap opera and emotional manipulation, but director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer) pulls back in the nick of time. What results is an involving and often poignant examination of love and loss. - 63
Boston Globe
The bodies are athletic, young, and white, and yet this is not the sport sex we usually see in Hollywood movies. It's the sex of adulation. Sometimes the director Robert Benton goes heavy on the hydraulic positioning, but his movie is scarcely mechanical. - 58
The A.V. Club
Maybe Benton's serenely dull time-waster should take a cue from one of its main settings, and become the first Hollywood film released directly to coffee shops. Otherwise, it seems destined to find an indulgent second home as an unusually classy slot-plugger over at Lifetime. - 50
Village Voice
For a film that purports to be an epic consideration of Love in Our Time, Feast is strikingly unthoughtful and uninterested in any but the most obvious kind of romantic love.
