Food of Love

Synopsis: Feature film. Alex (Grant), a London bank manager, feels nostalgic for the time when, as a university student, he staged a Shakespeare play in an idyllic English village. Deciding to repeat the experience he re-unites the original cast and intends to put on a production of Twelfth Night. Rehearsals are shambolic, but eventually the play is put on at the local prison where it is well-received. Critically savaged, the film soon disappeared from distribution. ‘Poliakoff lets his maudlin sentiment and fears run riot under the guise of a bitter-sweet romantic comedy, making it a woeful film...acting may have saved the day, unfortunately this cast performs as badly in the film as they do in the-play-within-the film’. (Demetrios Matheou, Sight and Sound).
Language: English
Country: France; Great Britain
Medium: Film
Technical information: Colour / Sound
Year of release: 1997
Duration: 108 mins; 9,795 feet

Director

Stephen Poliakoff

Producer

Cinematographer

Screenplay

Music

Art Direction

Cast

Production type: Fiction Films
Plays: Twelfth Night
Subjects: Drama
Keywords: prisons; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Rehearsals; Amateur theatre

History: Transmitted on C4 0n 8 August 2000.
Reviews: Reviewed by Demetrios Matheou in Sight and Sound, vol.9, no.12, December 1999 p. 47.

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