A Lovable Feast: An Old Friend Offers Cure for the War Weary

Published: September 25, 2007, 2:07 pm

Tags: arts amp amp culture, greg kinnear, morgan freeman, robert benton, selma blair

FEAST OF LOVE RUNNING TIME 102 minutes DIRECTED BY Robert Benton STARRING Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, Selma Blair, Radha Mitchell Robert Benton's Feast of Love, from a screenplay by Allison Burnett and based on the novel by Charles Baxter, serves admirably as a playful respite from the Iraq-war-driven flood of media violence that threatens to engulf us with a perpetual hangover of hopeless paranoia (and to which I am already beginning to succumb). This is not to say that Mr. Benton, Ms. Burnett and Mr. Baxter have collaborated on a concoction of frothy escapism. Quite the contrary. With the help of an exemplary cast, they have fashioned an exquisite tapestry of interlocking love stories, some of which end happily, some sadly, some farcically and one quite tragically. Throughout all the shifting moods, no single narrative disrupts the smoothly well-paced flow of the film as a coherent whole. Ms. Burnett's astute screenplay has some major structural differences from Mr.

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