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Watch: Menja d’amor 2002 123movies, Full Movie Online – Paul, a handsome and talented music student is employed as the page-turner at one of the world famous pianist Kennington’s concerts in San Francisco. Not only is Paul diligent but also extremely attractive, a fact noticed by Kennington and his agent Mansourian, two men at the top of their chosen careers. Kennington and Paul meet again in Barcelona, where the boy is on holiday with his mother, Pamela, who is trying to get over her husband leaving her. Paul and Kennington fall in love but this has very different implications for both men. Kennington rushes back home escaping from commitment. Pamela, meanwhile, begins to recover her self-confidence but Paul is no longer a child. Back in the United States Paul learns that his musical career is not going to progress as desired; he simply is not talented enough. Paul and Pamela will learn through their living experience how to build a deeper relationship..
Plot: Young aspiring pianist attracts attention of famous musicians. Chance encounters bring them together but expectations must be managed by all.
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Ratings:

	6.1/10 Votes: 1,758
	46% | RottenTomatoes
	46/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 16 Popularity: 4.386 | TMDB

Reviews:

Freudian Mess
I wanted so much to like this film, and I tried very hard to do so. But it is so inept, and has so many flaws, it is hard to know where to begin.

The basic story is simple enough: piano student Paul is seduced by and falls in love with his idol, fortyish concert pianist Richard; he gets dumped inexplicably and spends the rest of the film trying to make sense of it. But add these extra ingredients — Paul’s neurotic mother also falling for the pianist, Richard’s lover/manager seducing Paul while the boy is being kept by yet another older man — and you have a rather heady Freudian stew, indeed.

What these noxious, self-absorbed characters have in common, keeping the handsome 18-year-old confused and depressed, is their duplicity. Nobody tells Paul the truth, rendering him unable to make a decision in his own interest. His beauty makes him desirable. His ingenuous nature makes him an easy mark.

The dialogue is oddly disjointed though lifted directly from David Leavitt’s well-written novel, The Page Turner. For some reason, about half of Mr. Leavitt’s lines have been deleted, making those that remain a crazy-quilt of non-sequiturs. Adding to the confusion are British actors playing American refracted through the eyes and ears of a Spanish director. Then there are the Spanish actors who have learned their lines phonetically, wildly inflecting words incorrectly. Finally, a classical music consultant could have insured the proper pronunciation of composers’ names, or pointed out that most of the pieces Paul plays are embarrassingly inappropriate.

What the film does do well is to depict the haute-gay classical music demi-monde of New York, and the predatory older men who rule from lofty Central Park West enclaves. This exclusive oligarchy devours the seemingly unlimited supply of hopeful young artists, like Paul, who want to succeed but cannot due to inexperience and inaptitude for the game. A ‘civilized’ veneer covers, but never quite hides, the self-serving artistic Darwinism.

Exquisite Kevin Bishop, who plays Paul so perfectly, is a real find. He has a low-key style, lovely body, and astonishing blue eyes. Barcelona is exotic, the photography is beautiful, and the original score is well done, but the DVD itself has problems. The dialogue is somewhat out of sync, is overly loud in some places (mainly due to Juliet Stevenson’s histrionics), and nearly inaudible in others.

Juliet Stevenson steals the film
This is an adaptation of David Leavitt’s ‘ The Page Turner ‘, a novel which should have landed in better hands. I am not saying it is a bad film, but neither is it the good film it could have been. Italy has been substituted by Spain, and in a painting by numbers way we see some of the best of Barcelona. Those scenes were worthy of Jean Negulesco and at one point ‘ Three Coins in the Fountain ‘ is mentioned. Perhaps this was a sigh of regret concerning the loss of Italy. This is a ‘ Gay ‘ film and very self-conscious of the fact, and sadly it shows. Apart from Juliet Stevenson who gives a perfect performance the rest of the acting cast did not. Kevin Bishop does his best as the youth who is the focus of wealthy, influential men and at times he emotionally convinces, but his detachment from the sexual scenes ( mild though they are ) is painful to watch. I will give no spoilers about the plot, only to say that the well-off can be as unhappy as the poor, but as a wit said it is better to be unhappy with money. Ambition and power is shown at its most pathetically corrupt, and that the world of the arts is no better than that of any other less glamorous business. Sexuality is up for grabs and in the scene with a male prostitute that point strikes home with brutal reality. Perhaps David Leavitt would not have approved, but if he was still alive at the time of the film’s making Rainer Werner Fassbinder could have done a tremendous job at dissecting this particular ship of fools.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 52 min (112 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Drama, Music, Romance
Director Ventura Pons
Writer David Leavitt, Ventura Pons
Actors Paul Rhys, Kevin Bishop, Juliet Stevenson
Country Spain, Germany
Awards 4 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Stereo
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DuArt Film Laboratories Inc., New York, USA (U.S. laboratory), Image Film
Film Length 3,072 m (Spain)
Negative Format 35 mm (Kodak)
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format N/A