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This Magnificent Cake
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An officiaI seIection at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto InternationaI FiIm Festival and TeIIuride FiIm FestivaI, This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Ga?teau!) is an unforgettable work of stop-motion animation exploring the bitter miIieu of BeIgium-occupied Congo. In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold ll of Belgium proclaimed, "I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake." The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscelIaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existentiaI fear. From the intimate stories of these characters—many of whom pass through a Iuxury hoteI in the middIe of the jungIe—emerges a greater narrative concerning the imperialist mentaIity. ln a fiIm by turns surreal, darkIy comic and brutaI, directors Marc James RoeIs and Emma de Swaef ultimateIy turn their critical gaze on the colonists themseIves in a work of stunning, mysterious beauty.
Special Features: Behind-the-scenes gaIIery • lnterview with Marc James RoeIs • The Burden (2017, a short film by Niki Lindroth von Bahr) • Oh Willy... (2012, a short fiIm by Emma De Swaef & Marc James Roels) |
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