Drool-worthy confectionery expresses unspoken emotions in “The Cakemaker,” the first feature from the writer and director Ofir Raul Graizer and a master class in exquisite restraint. Film Base Berlin. Before he departs home after his latest visit, Tomas asks Oran when he’s going to tell his wife he’ll be moving permanently to Berlin (obviously to live with him). After 19 rejection letters from the film funds, and with only the support of the Jerusalem Film Fund, The Cakemaker was shot on a budget of $90,000 in 20 days, in 2 countries, Germany and Israel. All rights reserved. A forbidden love story takes a wholly unexpected — but richly rewarding — turn in Ofir Raul Graizer’s upcoming Karlovy Vary premiere, “The Cakemaker.” The film follows shy Berlin baker Thomas (Tim Kalkhof) who embarks on a passion and special affair with Oran (Roy Miller), a businessman visiting from Jerusalem who falls for both Thomas and his delicious baked goods. This Article is related to: Film and tagged Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Trailers, Video. Yet social and religious undercurrents remain mostly muted; and while Moti might be worried about the newcomer’s effect on the cafe’s kosher certification, he’s also kind enough to ensure that Thomas doesn’t eat Shabbat supper alone. It’s also an unusual story of same-sex romance that acknowledges the fluidity of sexuality and desire, particularly in light of emotional need; love takes a variety of shapes here, none more pure than any other. On one warm Saturday, a young man is forced to choose between his gay lover and submission to his religious identity. [Review], ‘The Witches’: Anne Hathaway Casts An Exasperating Spell In Robert Zemeckis’ Dull Film [Review], Luca Guadagnino Talks ‘We Are Who We Are,’ Unmade Projects & His Definition of Cinema [Interview], ‘Rebecca’: Ben Wheatley’s Hitchcock Riff Is A Pale Iteration Of A Classic Gothic Horror, David Gordon Green & Seth MacFarlane Team Up For ‘Smokey & The Bandit’ TV Series, Netflix Releases Yet More Crazy Numbers Touting The Success Of ‘Enola Holmes,’ ‘Project Power’ & More, ‘Falcon & Winter Soldier’ Writer Teases Characters From “The Earliest Marvel Movies” Returning For The Series, ‘Power Rangers’: Jonathan Entwistle To Direct A Feature Film & Oversee Various TV Series Based On ’90s Franchise, Jon M. Chu To Direct Disney+ ‘Willow’ Series Written By Jonathan Kasdan, Mark Webber On Directing 'The Place Of No Words,' Jim Jarmusch's Stewardship & More [Podcast], Lea Thompson Looks Back At 35 Years Of ‘Back To The Future’ [Interview], Susanne Bier Didn’t Compromise Her Vision For ‘The Undoing’ [Interview], Jeremy Strong Reveals Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Advice On Playing A Historical Figure [Interview], ‘The Boys” Eric Kripke On Season Two’s Timely Parallels & The Incredible Antony Starr [Interview], Sally Hawkins & Director Craig Roberts Talk ‘Eternal Beauty’ And Its “Dream-Like” Film Influences [Interview], 'Borat 2': Wa Wa Wee Wa, 'Subsequent Moviefilm' Is Very Niiice… Not! What’s also most intriguing about “The Cakemaker” is how its ending will be interpreted in different ways by different audiences. A few months later Tomas ventures into the local office Tomas had been working at to try to find out what’s happened,  He’s shocked to discover Oran died in a car crash six weeks earlier. Beginning as one thing and ending as quite another, this softly lighted melodrama follows Thomas (Tim Kalkhof), a reserved German pastry chef with a cozy cafe in Berlin and a handsome Israeli lover, Oren (Roy Miller). He doesn’t explain who he is, but sits for a bite to eat. Once a month or so, Oren arrives in Berlin for business — and a generous slice of Black Forest gâteau — leaving a wife, Anat (Sarah Adler), and young son back in Jerusalem. Any movie featuring her is worth seeing, even if there isn't much else to it (as in, for example, 2012's "Aya"). Finding himself involved in Anat's life in a way far beyond his anticipation, Thomas will stretch his lie to a point of no return. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC. Cinematographer Omri Aloni shoots some of the baking scenes in a dreamy twilit haze practically akin to the pottery scene in “Ghost”: Most of us, it’s fair to say, have never looked quite so sexy or serene while working with yeast. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Title: But, examine those virtues more closely and it becomes evident that here they’re owed to a form of storytelling that’s essentially cinematic, one that depends on a quality that distinguishes this film throughout: its extraordinary delicacy and restraint.”, Walter V. Addiego from the San Francisco Chronicle states that ‟Graizer takes his time and never feels the need to spell everything out, and The Cakemaker is a testament to what filmmakers can achieve when they trust the audience.”.

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