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| A Contracorriente Films | Release Date: TBA |
Summary:
Seventy-year-old Mahin (Lili Farhadpour), solitary until now, chooses to revive her love life. A chance encounter becomes an unforgettable evening.
Genre(s):
Drama, Comedy
Runtime:
97 min
The Guardian
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
The Observer (UK)
Sep 17, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
The film is exceedingly funny, even in translation, right up to the point where the tone shifts dramatically. Deeply endearing on every level, from its anti-authoritarian politics to its body positivity to general joie de vivre, this is a crowdpleaser through and through (unless the crowd happens to be made up of moral policemen and dogmatic clerics).
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The Film Stage
Oct 23, 2024
Sep 17, 2024
My Favourite Cake is a slice-of-life film with considered dialogue and heartfelt performances that unravels a culturally specific repression, one that got the Iranian filmmakers banned from France and Germany to edit and promote this film, but also the more universal loneliness of the elderly who still have more life to live.
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