Fridae

Director Robert Benton is famous for his mature and intelligent dramas like IKramer vs Kramer (for which he won the Oscar for Best Director), Places in the Heart and Nobody's Fool.

His latest drama, Feast of Love, is an ensemble piece about the many permutations of love. A cafe owner (Greg Kinnear) loses his bisexual wife (Selma Blair) to a lesbian woman (Stana Katic) and falls in love with another woman (Radha Mitchell) instead. His two young employees (the very attractive Toby Hemingway and Alexa Davalos) fall for each other, while a regular customer (Morgan Hemingway) at the cafe dispenses advice on love to anyone who needs it.

Older gay couples looking for a more old-fashioned V-Day movie should certainly catch Feast of Love. Unlike the movies of today, which tend to take shortcuts in telling their stories, Feast of Love unfolds clearly and leisurely, telling you everything that you need to know about the story.

Such a classicist form of storytelling may feel dated for impatient young minds. But well-directed, gracefully-acted, dialogue-driven dramas like these usually find their own audiences.