The Stranger, September 27th, 2007
Feast of Love
dir. Robert Benton
Someone somewhere once said something like this: The grandest subject of all, love, can only be tackled by directors who are beyond the age of 65. At that point in life, the director has the experience and distance to make sense of an emotion that is powerful and unpredictable. If there is any truth to this way of thinking, the movie Feast of Love contradicts it The director of the film, Robert Benton, is well past 70, and yet what he has to say about the grandest subject of all could easily be said by a man whose life has been around the sun 20 times.
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