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A Feast Of Love For Robert BentonMonday, August 6-------Two-time Academy Award winner Robert Benton was especially eloquent as he was interviewed by film critic Janet Maslin at the Jacob Burns Film Center in Westchester County last Wednesday evening, following the screening of Benton's latest film, FEAST OF LOVE. The ensemble drama, based on Charles Baxter's acclaimed novel, features a superb cast headed by Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Jane Alexander and Radha Mitchell. The film will be released on September 28th by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
While the film explores the infinite variety of love (paternal love, sibling love, filial love, romantic love), it also is not hesitant to delve into physical and sexual love, featuring a good amount of nudity and sexy canoodling. This certainly does exist in the original novel, and Benton does not shy away from some rather explicit love making scenes. Is it too much? "There was alot more sex and nudity in the book than we actually showed in the film", Benton declared. "I think that is much better to have an audience want more and show them less. In the film, I wanted to portray the intimacy of sex as being the most precious aspect of it." The film, not yet rated, could be slapped with an R rating for the casual nudity and explicit sexual couplings. While sex certainly does sell, according to Benton, the true theme of the film is "about hanging in there....dealing with the things that life throws your way, and attempting to find solace in a sense of community and family, even if it is not the traditional nuclear family that we are all taught to prize." In the film, love can cut both ways, and by being unpredicatable, maintain its power and poetry. For more information and to view the film's trailer, log on to: http://www.feastoflovefilm.com Sandy Mandelberger, Coming Attractions Editor 07.08.2007 | Coming Attractions's blog Cat. : Academy Award Alexa Davalos Alexa Davalos Alexa DavalosAs Allison Burnett Benton Business Business Charles Baxter Charles Baxter Cinema of the United States Coming Attractions Entertainment Entertainment ER FEAST OF LOVE Feast of Love Feast Of Love Films France Greg Kinnear GREG KINNEAR HBO Human Interest Human Interest Jane Alexander Janet Maslin Kramer vs. Kramer London Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Morgan Freeman Morgan Freeman New York Portland Radha Mitchell Robert Benton Robert Benton Robert Benton Sandy Mandelberger THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK Toby Hemingway United Kingdom
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