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‘My Favourite Cake’ Review: A Romantic Confection That Rises Sweetly, Until It Crumbles
The "Ballad of a White Cow" directors return with "My Favourite Cake" a later-life rom-com poorly served by a late swerve from sugary to sour.
But the question could also be asked of “ My Favourite Cake ” itself, which after leaning into Farhadpour’s ample charisma and the lovely, whimsical chemistry she strikes up with co-star Esmail Mehrabi, takes a strangely bitter turn in its home stretch, like a spongy confection whose dangerously high sucrose levels you are only just getting used to, when an unwelcome bit of grit chips a tooth. Returning, that is, in spirit but not in person, as the Iranian authorities have banned them from travelling and instigated court proceedings against the film, for, among other things, its depiction of a Mahin without her hijab, as well as the scenes of her defying the morality police, and dancing and drinking wine with a man to whom she is not married. First at the bakery, then at the local park and finally at a pensioners’ restaurant, Mahin embarks on an extremely genteel form of cruising, which is beautifully played by Farhadpour, allowing the character’s sense of mischief and self-aware daring to peek through her natural, and socially mandated, reserve.
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