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This Magnificent Cake!

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Five narratives set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century tell stories about a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy who works in an upscale hotel, a failed businessman who goes on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter.

Critics Reviews

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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader 04/18/2019
3/4
A feeling of surreal disconnection and an elliptical approach to storytelling distinguish This Magnificent Cake! Go to Full Review Charles Solomon Los Angeles Times 02/28/2019
At 44 minutes, "This Magnificent Cake" may be a long short or a short feature. Either way, it's an intriguing, disturbing film, utterly unlike American studio animation. Go to Full Review Sarah Williams In Review Online 08/25/2022
Clocking in at under an hour, the omnibus of stories here are more connected by setting than anything, and the individual vignettes seem too short to generate sufficient standalone strength for the scope of the story the directors’ wish to tell. Go to Full Review Sarah Boslaugh TheArtsStl 10/19/2019
7/10
...uses satire bordering on absurdity to refer to a horror that, if it were expressed directly, few could bear to watch. Go to Full Review Sean Collier Pittsburgh Magazine 04/26/2019
8/10
Don't mistake it for a bleak history lesson, though; this is grounded madness, like Eraserhead rendered in felt. Go to Full Review Michael Ward Should I See It 03/08/2019
4/5
...one of the most innovative and groundbreaking films of 2019, delivering a style uniquely and profoundly its own. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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08/22/2020 An incredible stop-motion animated masterpiece See more nefasto r @Nefasto 03/27/2020 This dreamy, surreal stop-motion animation picture is really something special. Unique storytelling, composed by five loosely connected shorts, with meanings and horrors hidden behind nonsensical scenes and some kind of sad poetry. See more Read all reviews
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Cast & Crew

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Marc James Roels

Director

Emma De Swaef

Director

Paul Huvenne

Narrator

Jan Decleir

The King

Bruno Levie

Georges

Gaston Motambo

Ota
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Movie Info

Synopsis Five narratives set in colonial Africa in the late 19th century tell stories about a troubled king, a middle-aged Pygmy who works in an upscale hotel, a failed businessman who goes on an expedition, a lost porter, and a young army deserter.
Director
Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef
Producer
Steven De Beul, Ben Tesseur
Screenwriter
Marc James Roels, Emma De Swaef
Distributor
GKIDS
Production Co
Pedri Animation, Vivement Lundi !, Beast Animation
Genre
Comedy, Drama, Animation
Original Language
Dutch
Release Date (Theaters)
Mar 1, 2019, Limited
Runtime
44m
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)