Film Notes Robert Benton Feasting on Love

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His most noteworthy films of the past three decades -- 1979's "Kramer vs. Kramer," 1984's "Places in the Heart" and 1994's "Nobody's Fool" -- present familiar characters, ordinary lives and the full range of love's twisted complexities.

His latest movie, "Feast of Love," has a good half-dozen pairings that give the three-time Academy Award winner plenty of room for exploration.

"I thought, in a world where people are making movies about romance, this is a movie about love. And that's very different," he says. "Romance is goal-oriented. Love is a mystery.

Bonnie and Clyde, inquired about movie rights after reading the book when it was released but was told it had been optioned by a studio and assigned to a different director.

Several years later, a screenplay was written and some parts had been cast, but there were scheduling problems with the director, so Benton got his crack at the project.

Chief among those already cast was Freeman, in the central role of a long-married university professor on extended work leave as he grieves for an only child who died.

The problem with having Morgan is that he's a heavyweight -- and you can't have a heavyweight in a scene with a middleweight, Benton says.

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