Hummus! The Movie (2015) & The Cakemaker (2017)

Today's episode is a double feature focused on food, much delayed due to audio capture problems involving Facetime (I blame my battered, much-abused phone). Oren Rosenfeld directs Hummus! The Movie, a documentary that focuses on three Israeli restaurateurs and their relationship to hummus, and Ofir Raul Grazier directs The Cakemaker, a drama that revolves around a love triangle that spans Europe and Israel and explores the loneliness of loss (and starring Tim Kalkhof and Sarah Adler (of Meduzot and other films!)). Go for a bowl of hummus over the documentary and eat a piece of cake while watching the drama, if only to soak up your tears (but listen to this episode for both films - we're clever!)

Next Time and Thank You

Next time, we'll watch Maktub (2017), an action-comedy film directed by Oded Raz and starring Guy Amir and Hanan Savyon. Different fare from what we usually watch that has been billed as an Israeli blockbuster. Thank you as always to the Klezmer Rebs for letting us play their music as our intro and outro! Check out their unique brand of klezmer on their website and bandcamp pages!