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Food of Love
wednesday may 1 9:00 pm Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE Due to the extraordinary demand for tickets an extra screening has been added Thursday May 2 at 7:00 PM Regal Cinema Regal tickets will also be available at the Festival table in front of the Colony Theatre beginning April 27, and one hour prior to each screening at the Festival table at the Regal South Beach Cinema. The Regal South Beach Cinema is located at the corner of Lincoln and Alton Roads. |
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Paul is an aspiring musician on the edge of adulthood. He's smitten in that unarticulated young-crush way with his idol, Richard Kennington, a handsome concert pianist who's pushing forty. At a one-time gig as Kennington's page turner at a concert in San Francisco, Paul unknowingly attracts the pianist's attention, as well as that of Mansourian, Kennington's older manager and long-time companion. This subtle comedy of manners follows Paul, a good year later, and his mother, recently dumped by Paul's father for a younger woman, to Barcelona and on to a chance meeting with the object of Paul's burning adoration. Based on the novel The Page Turner by the award-winning novelist David Leavitt (The Lost Language of Cranes, Family Dancing), the film takes us through the twists of a plot that includes a steamy affair, a deceived mother and a suspicious lover. Back in New York, with Paul now enrolled at the Julliard School of Music and openly gay, the darkly comic story has a few more turns to take, as jealousy, desire and that persistent mother all conspire to snare Paul in a complex web. Food of Love, the first English language film from Spain's renowned director Ventura Pons, is a lovely meditation on ambition, deception and the games gay men play. With stand-out performances from Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply, Drowning by Numbers), Paul Rhys (Chaplin, Vincent and Theo) and newcomer Kevin Bishop.
A 2002 Berlin Film Festival selection.
Director Ventura Pons will attend the screening and discuss his film with the audience.
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