The Cakemaker

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item number:  6RFR5
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DVD Details

  • Rated: Unrated
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 45 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: November 6, 2018
  • Originally Released: 2017
  • Label: Strand Home Video

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Entertainment Reviews:

Certified Fresh98%

TOMATOMETER
Total Count: 52

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 496
Rating: 3/5 -- 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. Full Review
Orca Sound
Dec 8, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- 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. Full Review
Arizona Republic
Jul 26, 2018
Natural performances from Kalkhof and Adler root the melodrama in genuine pathos. Full Review
Chicago Reader
Aug 27, 2018
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. Full Review
culturevulture.net
Mar 1, 2019
3.5 stars out of 4 -- [T]he film’s intelligent, well-crafted story and beautifully drawn characters seem to suggest literary roots. But examine those virtues more closely and it becomes evident that here they’re owed to a form of storytelling that’s essentially cinematic...
RogerEbert.com
Jun 29, 2018
Rating: 4/5 -- It's comforting like a sweet dessert. Full Review
Smash Cut Reviews
Aug 2, 2019
Despite, or perhaps because of, its position as one of the most polarizing of nations, Israel continues to produce exceptional films, including ones that have nothing to do with the current political situation. THE CAKEMAKER is just such a film.
Los Angeles Times
Jun 28, 2018

Product Description:

A German baker (Tim Kalkhof) has an affair with a married Israeli businessman (Roy Miller), who then dies in a car accident. He tracks down his lover's widow (Sarah Adler) and forms an unexpected bond with her, but secrets and cultural differences threaten to tear them apart. Writer/director Ofir Raul Graizer makes his feature debut with this drama. Zohar Shtrauss and Sandra Sade co-star.

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  • UPC: 712267371822
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