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Food of Love is a film of genre Drama directed by Ventura Pons released in USA on 25 october 2002 with Juliet Stevenson

Food of Love (2002)

Food of Love
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Released in USA 25 october 2002
Length 1h52
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Romance
Rating59% 2.9987652.9987652.9987652.9987652.998765

Food of Love is a 2002 Spanish/German film based on the 1998 novel The Page Turner by David Leavitt. The screenplay was written by Ventura Pons who also directed the feature.

In 2002, the film was the Official Selection at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Montreal World Film Festival and San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.

The film was released on DVD by Peccadillo Pictures in 2004.

Synopsis

Paul Porterfield (Kevin Bishop) is an 18-year-old music student who is offered the chance to be the page turner for the acclaimed pianist Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys). Kennington, and his agent and lover Joseph Mansourian (Allan Corduner), is instantly attracted to Paul's youth and attractiveness, but Kennington's attempts to get to know Paul better are thwarted by Paul's possessive, neurotic mother, Pamela (Juliet Stevenson) who is initially unaware of the attraction. She dotes on her son but is faced with the revelation that her husband is cheating on her and the exasperation of her son, who feels suffocated by her love. Paul is keen to escape his mother and meets Kennington in a hotel; After talking Kennington offers Paul a massage which leads on to other things. After meeting up again in Barcelona, the two begin an affair behind the back of Pamela and Mansourian, who consistently attempts to contact Kennington to no avail after his dog dies. On the last day before Kennington returns to New York, and Pamela and Paul head on to Grenada, Pamela makes excuses and goes to Kennington's hotel to seduce him. He is clearly not interested. While consoling herself in the bathroom, she finds a pair of her son's boxer shorts hanging on the shower line.

Actors

Juliet Stevenson

(Pamela Porterfield)Kevin Bishop

(Paul Porterfield)Allan Corduner

(Joseph Mansourian)Paul Rhys

(Richard Kennington)Geraldine McEwan

(Novotna)Craig Hill

(Izzy)
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