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Critics Consensus: The Cakemaker explores all-consuming emotion with beguiling restraint, adding up to a delicately understated character study fueled by the power of love.
Critic Consensus: 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.
Credit first-time writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer with pulling off something of a miracle.
A tender, tactile and just-sweet-enough story of hidden love, challenged faith and unwittingly shared grief.
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.
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.
The most fascinating kind of tension results, an unusual state of affairs that plays fair with the characters, and with us.
A thoughtful and moving film about two people dealing with shared grief.
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.
A beautiful film that explores love, loss, and religion.
There is an earnest, emotional truth to the characters and their relationships - which is plain to see in their faces, even when secrets are being hidden.
The movie is good at (very) slowly turning up the heat, but a lot of it comes out half-baked.
Rather than an over-the-top melodrama, it asks profound questions about human nature, empathy, and our value beyond archaic doctrines that separate more than unite.
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