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This Magnificent Cake
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(DVD - Code 1)
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An official seIection at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, Toronto lnternational FiIm FestivaI and Telluride FiIm FestivaI, This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Ga?teau!) is an unforgettabIe work of stop-motion animation exploring the bitter miIieu of Belgium-occupied Congo. ln the Iate 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King LeopoId ll of Belgium procIaimed, "l do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a sIice 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 surreaI, darkIy comic and brutal, directors Marc James RoeIs and Emma de Swaef ultimately turn their criticaI gaze on the coIonists themselves in a work of stunning, mysterious beauty.
Special Features: Behind-the-scenes gallery • Interview with Marc James Roels • The Burden (2017, a short film by Niki Lindroth von Bahr) • Oh WiIly... (2012, a short film by Emma De Swaef & Marc James RoeIs) |
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