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seekingferretLife During Wartime
My first Todd Solondz movie, because the whole idea of a Todd Solondz movie never quite grabbed me. I didn't enjoy watching it, even though I love several of the film's actors, especially Allison Janney. And I was puzzled that it's labelled a comedy, I barely laughed at all.
Still, Jews dance in this film, in the climactic Bar Mitzvah scene.
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[Review redacted for Equinox reasons, sadly, as I have opinions and want to talk about them]
The Cakemaker
Jews do not dance in this film.
Still, it is a pretty good movie about grief and love, and as someone who has something of a fetish for films that have closeups of hands making things, I really enjoyed a lot of the bakery scenes.
The premise is that the titular cakemaker is a German twenty-something who has an affair with a married Israeli businessman visiting Berlin. When the businessman dies in a car accident, he travels to Israel and starts working in the businessman's widow's cafe, making cakes and cookies and intertwining himself in the life of his lover's family, seemingly trying to learn something about the businessman's other life that he was carefully kept out of in order to sort out his grief. If that wasn't already too complicated and messy, religion and kashrut rules make things even messier. First time I've ever seen bishul akum as a plot point in a movie.
My first Todd Solondz movie, because the whole idea of a Todd Solondz movie never quite grabbed me. I didn't enjoy watching it, even though I love several of the film's actors, especially Allison Janney. And I was puzzled that it's labelled a comedy, I barely laughed at all.
Still, Jews dance in this film, in the climactic Bar Mitzvah scene.
[Redacted]
[Review redacted for Equinox reasons, sadly, as I have opinions and want to talk about them]
The Cakemaker
Jews do not dance in this film.
Still, it is a pretty good movie about grief and love, and as someone who has something of a fetish for films that have closeups of hands making things, I really enjoyed a lot of the bakery scenes.
The premise is that the titular cakemaker is a German twenty-something who has an affair with a married Israeli businessman visiting Berlin. When the businessman dies in a car accident, he travels to Israel and starts working in the businessman's widow's cafe, making cakes and cookies and intertwining himself in the life of his lover's family, seemingly trying to learn something about the businessman's other life that he was carefully kept out of in order to sort out his grief. If that wasn't already too complicated and messy, religion and kashrut rules make things even messier. First time I've ever seen bishul akum as a plot point in a movie.
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Date: 2019-08-13 12:40 pm (UTC)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_During_Wartime_(film)