Feast of Love more like a Famine

I am loath to put this in the category of the level of disappointment I had regarding the movie Evening. But there's no way around it. First, it was badly shot. Jump cuts used this terrible fade to black followed by the sound of thunder and rain multiple times, which was neither artistic nor particularly poigniant or funny. I tried hard for this movie which really needed to decide if it was a tragedy or a comedy...it certainly wasn't a tragicomedy, that perfect blend of wit/morose. The voice over and the dialog tell us what we're supposed to know rather than the scenes allowing us to infer meaning. I don't know if this is a problem inherent to screenplays from books, but I don't think so. The Hours is a good example of book, screenplay, excellent movie. There were some beautiful lines about love, but most of them were in the realm of trite, overdone, or already been done before. I loved the idea of Morgan Freeman and Jane Alexander in this movie, but their story line didn't allow for great chemistry. The young couple, their love so aptly described in terms of Romeo and Juliet, were rather naive and after school special-ish. Bradley and his search for the perfect partner in love is initially not very likealbe/clueless, and turns out rather okay. The biggest problem is that at a point in the movie it is stated (in a voice over) that Bradley is friends with his previous two wives and their respective partners, one who left him for a woman and one who left him for a man. The final scenes show all these people together as friends with the exception of the lesbian couple so prevalent in the first third of the movie. They disappear completely from the narrative while all the other couples add to our understanding of love and the human condition. If this is a feast of love, where are my lesbians at? There was too much dark and not enough light in this movie, or if it needed to be dark, then let it be so, complete story lines, illuminate the demons a little more. Something. So while Feast looked promising, another misleading trailer, I found nothing to sustain me.