#My Favorite Cake

[littlefluffbutt]

My birthday today!! Had Chinese for dinner and homemade Zebra cheesecake:) It was in the fridge for several hours but it was still warmish when we served it lol. Still delicious!!

[thecrimsoncrow]

May I share what my lovely cousin-in-law made for me for my 22nd bday last year?

made this cake for my bf’s 30th birthday and i’m so annoyingly proud of it

[whileiamdying]

My Favourite Cake review – charming portrayal of a 70-year-old Iranian’s appetite for romance

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Heroine Mahin (Lily Farhadpour) is fiercely determined to revitalise her mundane existence and taste a better life

As well as everything else, this wonderfully sweet and funny film will contribute to the debate about whether repressive regimes are the nursery of artistic greatness. The Iranian government has prevented the film’s two directors, Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, from travelling to Berlin to attend their own premiere; six months ago, their production offices were raided and computers and hard drives confiscated. But, fortunately, the film-makers had a copy stored in another country, and the film’s gentle humanity is a compelling rebuke to this fatuous, clumsy repression.

The authorities had apparently got wind of scenes in which women show their hair, and do not wear the hijab with enough modesty; the morality police drive around Tehran intimidating them with self-important purpose. The 70-year-old heroine – who wistfully remembers a time when hijabs were not required at all – stands up to these uniformed bullies and rescues a woman from their clutches.

This is Mahin (a lovely performance from Lili Farhadpour), whose story is a meditation on love and loss, loneliness and old age, and on the price at which long-term married happiness is bought. It is a meditation on how women come to terms with the destiny of widowhood, of knowing that they will almost certainly outlive their husbands. Mahin is herself 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.

But the conversation turns to whether it is possible to find romance again at their age. Why not? And so Mahin, without quite admitting it to herself, expands and modifies her aimless daytime schedule with a secret end in view: to meet a man. Mahin hangs out in the bakery queue, at the park, at a fancy hotel coffee shop and finally at a modest restaurant where pensioners’ food vouchers can be redeemed. And she finds herself meeting cute with Faramarz (Esmaeel Mehrabi), a modest, personable single man of her age. He is a cab driver and military veteran, who himself is of Mahin’s independent cast of mind: he got into trouble with joyless authorities for playing a musical instrument in a wedding band.

And so Faramarz and Mahin have their moment together at her apartment, where she offers to bake him her favourite cake. It is a moment of emotional connection for which they have saved up all their thoughts and feelings since becoming single – as if the entirety of their late-life inner existences are now being poured out to each other. There is something quietly magnificent in it. Moments like these in life are poignantly brief – but many never have them at all. It’s a lovely film.

My Favourite Cake screened at the Berlin Film Festival and is in UK cinemas from 13 September.

[rubyrkgk]

Balance and Barbers

After the death of Jake, Finn makes routine trips to Prismo's Time Room, to try and spark up a bromance that never was.

[Commissions] [Carrd] [Soup of the Day]

[kurakuradonn]

ice whoress on the sideblog

[the-unseenside]

It’s my Boy’s birthday, but I’m the one eating his cake. 😈🎂

[marf244]

Fionna and Cake doodle dump, mostly Simon of course

[pouletpourri]

depressed old man simon and therapy cat cake

[hccupit]

i love you simon

[kawoid]

[xxplastic-cubexx]

Marvel Meow (2021), Nao Fuji | Professor X and Magneto

Bonus:

[cappycodeart]

he’s infiltrated my sketchbook too i’m not safe here anymore

[tired-all-the-time22]

Finished Fionna and Cake a week or two ago and twitter artists have got me rotating these two in my mind

[chromaclopse]

id in alt! toxic yuri?? problematic women???? for me????????

[stravacious]

gary’s twin sister, nadine!!

i’m a sucker for the bonnie & neddy episode :’)

[ripplefields]

i don't even know why i made it berdly i think i just wanted to draw berdly