My Favourite Cake
A sensitive rumination on love and loss, loneliness and old age, and on the price at which long-term married happiness is bought.
Director: Maryam Moghadam, Behtash Sanaeeha
Cast includes: Lily Farhadpour
Thursday morning screenings include hot drink with your ticket and subtitles where possibLE
97 mins / 2024 / Iran/ Persian
Mahin is a widow whose daughter and grandchildren live abroad, and her muted existence alone in her apartment is revealed in a series of tremendously composed tableaux. There are FaceTime phone calls with her daughter which somehow never allow for a proper talk. She has difficulty getting to sleep and doesn’t get up before noon. She waters the plants in her garden, goes shopping and occasionally hosts lunches for her female friends, at which the dominant theme is everyone’s various ailments, discussed at hilarious and explicit length.
A meditation on how women come to terms with the destiny of widowhood, of knowing that they will almost certainly outlive their husbands.
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