FOOD OF LOVE SYNOPSIS
Spanish director Ventura Pons' first English language film is a sensuous and literate tale based on David Leavitt's gay novel 'The Page Turner,' about a young piano student and his passionate affair with a concert pianist.

FOOD OF LOVE REVIEW
Spanish director Ventura Pons' first English-language film is this faithful adaptation of David Leavitt's 'The Page Turner,' a sensual and highly literate drama of a young gay pianist, his overbearing mother and his tempestuous first love. In this film, Pons has created his most unabashedly gay, steamy and accessible work yet. Adorable Kevin Bishop plays Paul, a sexually repressed aspiring pianist. One night in San Francisco he is given the opportunity to work as a page turner for his idol, the famed pianist Richard Kennington (Paul Rhys). After the concert, the older man and teenager flirt, but before anything can happen, Paul's neurotic mother Pamela (Juliet Stevenson) intercedes. Six months later in Barcelona, they meet up again and, despite his meddling mother, Paul and Kennington embark on a passionate affair. Over the course of the next few days, their affair deepens, in spite of (or perhaps because of) their age difference. The recently divorced Pamela, oblivious to the notion that her son is gay, misinterprets Richard's amorous signals, feeling that he is flirting with her (and doesn't see that the attraction is with her son). Adding to the complexity of the affair is Kennington's lover/manager Mansourian (Allan Corduner) who begins to suspect something's up. Rather than deal with the whole embarrassing situation, Richard flees back to New York. Sometime later, with Paul now a Julliard music student and lover to another middle-aged man, the two meet again. Enlisting a brilliant cast of British actors - including out thespian Corduner - to play his American leads and shooting almost entirely in his native Spain, Pons crossed borders of all sorts this go-around. And Leavitt approved, lauding praise upon the film when it screened at Berlin this year. A marvelous adaptation that is sure to be one of 'the' ga