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The Cakemaker explores all-consuming emotion with beguiling restraint, adding up to a delicately understated character study fueled by the power of love.
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Natural performances from Kalkhof and Adler root the melodrama in genuine pathos. Aug 27, 2018 | Full Review…
Natural performances from Kalkhof and Adler root the melodrama in genuine pathos.
Leah Pickett
Credit first-time writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer with pulling off something of a miracle. Aug 23, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Credit first-time writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer with pulling off something of a miracle.
Scott Marks
A tender, tactile and just-sweet-enough story of hidden love, challenged faith and unwittingly shared grief. Aug 5, 2018 | Full Review…
A tender, tactile and just-sweet-enough story of hidden love, challenged faith and unwittingly shared grief.
Guy Lodge
Kalkhof has perfect chemistry with both Miller and Adler. The characters don't have to talk for the audience to feel the loss, love and desire they're experiencing. Jul 26, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Kalkhof has perfect chemistry with both Miller and Adler. The characters don't have to talk for the audience to feel the loss, love and desire they're experiencing.
Samantha Incorvaia
Graizer take 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. Jul 19, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Graizer take 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.
Walter V. Addiego
The most fascinating kind of tension results, an unusual state of affairs that plays fair with the characters, and with us. Jul 5, 2018 | Full Review…
The most fascinating kind of tension results, an unusual state of affairs that plays fair with the characters, and with us.
Kenneth Turan
There is no word in our lexicon for the conundrum so tenderly and lovingly, yet truthfully plated in The Cake Maker, not one, not one hundred. Mar 1, 2019 | Full Review…
There is no word in our lexicon for the conundrum so tenderly and lovingly, yet truthfully plated in The Cake Maker, not one, not one hundred.
Toba Singer
A delicate film that perfectly encapsulates love in its many forms, never favouring one story over another. Feb 22, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A delicate film that perfectly encapsulates love in its many forms, never favouring one story over another.
Louise Burrell
First time feature film director and screenwriter Ofir Raul Graizer has, like his main character Thomas, managed to make a delicious film/cake with simple ingredients. It really is all in the construction/baking. Dec 8, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
First time feature film director and screenwriter Ofir Raul Graizer has, like his main character Thomas, managed to make a delicious film/cake with simple ingredients. It really is all in the construction/baking.
Carey-Ann Pawsey
A thoughtful and moving film about two people dealing with shared grief. Nov 3, 2018 | Full Review…
A thoughtful and moving film about two people dealing with shared grief.
Rob Aldam
It's hard to believe The Cakemaker is director and screenwriter Ofir Raul Graizer's first feature, it is such an assured, well-judged and sweetly moving study of a gay man's journey through grief and loneliness. Oct 18, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's hard to believe The Cakemaker is director and screenwriter Ofir Raul Graizer's first feature, it is such an assured, well-judged and sweetly moving study of a gay man's journey through grief and loneliness.
Alexa Dalby
A beautiful film that explores love, loss, and religion. Oct 9, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
A beautiful film that explores love, loss, and religion.
Joe Friar
THE CAKEMAKER (3 1/2 Stars) This surprisingly beautiful, subtle film is perhaps the best movie ever made that has the worst poster EVER MADE! I mean seriously, who thought the Dime Store Novel approach would adequately represent such a warm, cinematic experience. The tale follows a German pastry chef who falls in love with a married Israeli man, who dies, launching an obsessive journey for our titular character. He travels to Israel and ends up working for the widow of his dead boyfriend. It takes some unexpected turns, features very little dialogue to visually convey the different ways grief plays out on loved ones. It's tender, sweet, heartbreaking and perfectly acted. It doesn't hurt that it's also dessert porn heaven.
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