Food Of Love
Paul (Kevin Bishop) is a pianist of aspiration which is a pin of pages of his idol, an accomplished classical pianist, Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys). The professional relationship becomes instantly brief flirtation, but the mother of Paul, manic, Pamela (Juliet Stevenson) gets in the road.
Months later, on a trip to Barcelona, Spain, Pamela Paul and Richard meet again. This is actually initiated by Paul, who notices a poster for a concert just happened to Richard Washington, and Paul looks up (calling every hotel in Barcelona), the hotel is a concert pianist, and comes in contact with his “idol”. The movie deals with Paul’s relationship with his mother, his ‘coming out’, and moreover, the growth of a young pianist, potentially promising, and glimpses of an accomplished one, his ‘manager’. I have found that although the film certainly had a strong gay theme to it (well - is the relationship of a young man with an older one) was definitely not the movie, with many other things and nuances of color as the rest of it.I really enjoyed the movie, and had previously read The Page Turner.
I found that the film was faithful to the end movie.As a postscript, there were very mixed reviews of this by several reviewers. Some loved it, some hated it.
Each took at least one of the actors (but not the same!) As bad action - a mother, a concert pianist, the young prodigy. Certainly found all of the characters very believable and realistic for the functions they were playing.
Each was complex and not think any of them parodies.A interesting film (the first in English), Spanish director Ventura Pons.
