Add this to your watchlist this award season…
The Cakemaker is written and directed by Ofir Raul Grazier and will be Israel’s official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film in the 91st Academy Awards.
It tells the story of Thomas, a young German baker, who engages in a romantic relationship with Oren, a closeted married Israeli man who visits Berlin often on business. When Oren dies in a car accident, Thomas travels to Jerusalem in hopes of finding answers about his death. While there, he develops a close relationship with Oren’s widow, Anat.
37-year-old Graizer, who is himself gay, says he wanted to explore the complexities of human sexuality and the unexpected relationships people often develop when they least expect it.
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“People are complex,” he says. “I don’t know if Thomas is gay or straight or bi or whatever. I don’t know and I don’t care. He had such a strong feeling toward this guy, and this guy is taken away from him, and then he creates this strong connection with this woman, and for her it’s the same.”
Graizer continues: “This is what it’s about: this connection, this love, these genuine feelings which are transcending any definition or label or box.”
Watch the trailer for The Cakemaker below.
JED08
That actually does not look good to me.
robert_rupp
I kind of said the same. But will say. It was one of my favorite movies ..not in your face , slow , but fitting the story ..I felt so much for what each was going thru…afterwards , four of us spent a couple hours discussing the film. Always a good sign. And interesting how each of us saw different emotions.
Raphael
JED08, you’re right, it’s not! The gay bits of the movie are basically those of these pictures, the rest is portraying a straight relationship with the deceased’s wife, which is implied that they got to stay together at the end… Anyone looking for a “gay movie” should avoid this one, is a waste of time.
Thad
Somehow I don’t expect “Hilarity ensues.”
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KenDC
My husband and I saw this film with a straight couple. We all came away impressed and challenged by the film. It’s the best movie I’ve seen in a long while.
robert_rupp
Agree. Wasn’t in favor of going. But the pace , the suttleness of the emotions
Loved it
Mainere
I know!! I loved how the “gay” relationship only lasted 10 minutes on the film! Woah, never seen gay censorship before! I love how he suddenly become straight and started sleeping with his wife too!
You know what I loved the most?? The fact that the only gay kiss was cut and the straight kisses was full-on shown to the audience, groundbreaking movie!!
KenDC
I was married for many years, as was my husband. My wife and I had our most sensuous sex after I came out, before we divorced. Mainere is bummed at what he views as sensorship. Perhaps…. I saw a starkly tender and complex love story that captured our imaginations and moved the four of us.
Mainere
its obviously made for straight people, “Ken”. Why else would they censor the gay scenes? And don’t tell me you consider those “gay” sex scenes, like literally any of my straight buds could do it for fun, those actors were comfortable AF playing the roles, because they don’t actually engage in anything intimately gay.
only STUPID easily manipulated people will consider this a movie made for LGBT community
james7
THE CAKEMAKER, is a wonderful movie. It was shown at the Gay Film Festival here in Kansas City and i saw it twice. I highly recommend it.
Kieran
What happens when a closeted Israeli businessman falls for a hot German baker?
They decide to get married and raise a family in gay friendly Berlin?
No silly, he dies in a tragic car accident of course.
Henreid
You wrote my thoughts exactly. Seriously, folks, there have been so many of these fictional scenarios where one of the partners in a gay relationship dies tragically (and the focus then shifts to a connection between a man and a woman) that it is getting kind of creepy. The core message seems to be that there are awful consequences for having gay sex, which suggests that we probably haven’t progressed as far as we’d like to believe since the bad old days when sodomy was “the love that dare not speak its name”. I guess this story and others like it are attempting to be complex and meaningful and profound and evocative, but it just looks like a contrivance to me. As you can probably tell, I won’t be lining up to see this film…
Kieran
“The wages of sin is death”.
badpappy
The preview is highly enticing! Can’t wait to see it.
jkb
This looks like an amazing film, not movie with a predictable formula, but an examination of life’s complexities, tragedies, and disappointments. Look forward to seeing. Thanks for the heads up.
Kangol
Germany, though? Uh, OK.
sfcarlos65
I saw it this summer. Loved it!
DCguy
Oh Gee, another movie where a gay guy dies and another one decides he really isn’t gay and starts sleeping with a women.
Yeah, really fresh plot-line there.