Trying hard not to give too much away. A young handsome
German Baker who lives and operates a charming Cafe in Berlin starts an affair
with an equally attractive Jewish businessman who comes to Berlin often and
loves the baker’s cookies. The businessman lives in Jerusalem with his plain
wife and son and one day he returns to Jerusalem but is never heard of again.
It gets dicey for me at this point because as I said I’m trying hard not to
give much away. I will tell you that sweet Thomas the baker goes to Jerusalem
where most of the film takes place and integrates himself in his lover’s
family. He even starts working in the wife’s cafe, and bakes up a storm making
it the place to have coffee and cake in the city. Everyone with the exception
of his lover’s orthodox brother takes to Thomas and its not hard to see why,
Thomas is as appealing and sweet as those fabulous cakes and cookies he
creates. This film mixes in the batter (sorry couldn’t resist) politics,
religion, love, affection and the complicated laws of kosher cooking with just
the right amount of sugar that sometimes I might add is a little hard to
swallow. Small quibbles on my part as I was completely taken with this first
film by
Ofir Raul Graizer and the charming performance of Tim Kalkhof as Thomas the baker. If
I’ve made it sound like this is a simple one level movie, it isn’t, the layers
like a great cake is full of surprises and keeps on giving with every bite.
Trying hard not to give too much away. A young handsome
German Baker who lives and operates a charming Cafe in Berlin starts an affair
with an equally attractive Jewish businessman who comes to Berlin often and
loves the baker’s cookies. The businessman lives in Jerusalem with his plain
wife and son and one day he returns to Jerusalem but is never heard of again.
It gets dicey for me at this point because as I said I’m trying hard not to
give much away. I will tell you that sweet Thomas the baker goes to Jerusalem
where most of the film takes place and integrates himself in his lover’s
family. He even starts working in the wife’s cafe, and bakes up a storm making
it the place to have coffee and cake in the city. Everyone with the exception
of his lover’s orthodox brother takes to Thomas and its not hard to see why,
Thomas is as appealing and sweet as those fabulous cakes and cookies he
creates. This film mixes in the batter (sorry couldn’t resist) politics,
religion, love, affection and the complicated laws of kosher cooking with just
the right amount of sugar that sometimes I might add is a little hard to
swallow. Small quibbles on my part as I was completely taken with this first
film by Ofir Raul Graizer and the charming performance of Tim Kalkhof as Thomas the baker. If
I’ve made it sound like this is a simple one level movie, it isn’t, the layers
like a great cake is full of surprises and keeps on giving with every bite.
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