Tasty is ‘The Sweetest Mango’

This brilliant actor appears in nearly every scene. Kirwan plays the 30-year-old Antiguan returning home after spending two decades in Canada.

As the drama unfolds, “Love” is looking for a place to belong to, even as she searches for herself. She is aided by Richard Warren (played by Omar Mathurin), a graphic artist who has his sights on a musical career. As the title suggests, Richard offered Love a mango that came from a grafted tree. The mango, came from two different sources to produce a fruit of a unique taste. Richard tells Love that the mango taste best when it is placed in the dark area to ripe.

They both shared the taste of the mango before making love for the first time. Richard kept the first mango from this tree for the one that he loved. In movie the handsome Antiguan actor, Mathurin, is a popular member of a jam band called, “EI A Krui.”

He being a frontline singer, this enabled him to make his character believable in The Sweetest Mango. Also in the cast is sports icon Mervyn Richards of local football and cricket renown.

He plays dashing “Deke” who is Love and Richard’s boss. The film also stars Julie Hewlett, an Antiguan actress recently returned from spending years in England. Former Carnival queen runner-up Janil Greenaway, plays Love’s very much grounded god-sister and sidekick.

Denise Francis, Centelia Brown, Berni Isaac, and Johnny King round out the supporting cast, and there are dozens of other extras who were native Antiguans.

Throughout the film, there were seaside scenes and country-side of the beautiful island of Antigua. From the East’s Devil’s Bridge, where slaves reportedly threw themselves into the sea in search of another kind of freedom, to the lush South, the breadbasket of Antigua, where the mango groves display their sensual sweetness, the island is seen in a light that too many take for granted. In the words of one of the viewers at movietowne, “ the discerning viewer will clearly see that this film is also a story about love of a country where land and sea truly make beauty.”

The film is produced and directed by Mitzi and Howard Allen, produced and directed the film, respectively.

The husband-and-wife team has made a name for themselves as consummate professionals whose radio, television, and host productions have become the local benchmark by which others are measured. D Gisele Isaac, already known for another love story, Considering Venus, a novel released in 1998, wrote the script, which she describes as “simple dialogue between complex characters.”

Also a returned native, this time from New York, Isaac said she understands very well the yearning for home and roots.