{"product_id":"this-magnificent-cake_aec-gkd23985br","title":"This Magnificent Cake!","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn official selection at Cannes Directors' Fortnight, Toronto International Film Festival and Telluride Film Festival, This Magnificent Cake! (Ce Magnifique Gâteau!) is an unforgettable work of stop-motion animation exploring the bitter milieu of Belgium-occupied Congo. In the late 19th century, keen to compete with other European imperial powers on the continent, King Leopold II of Belgium proclaimed, \"I do not want to miss a good chance of getting us a slice of this magnificent African cake.\" The subsequent occupation of the Congo would come to attract a contingent of servants, merchants and miscellaneous bourgeois driven by everything from insatiable greed to existential fear. From the intimate stories of these characters-many of whom pass through a luxury hotel in the middle of the jungle-emerges a greater narrative concerning the imperialist mentality. In a film by turns surreal, darkly comic and brutal, directors Marc James Roels and Emma de Swaef ultimately turn their critical gaze on the colonists themselves in a work of stunning, mysterious beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FYE","offers":[{"title":"New \/ Blu-ray Disc \/ This Magnificent Cake!","offer_id":49168485450036,"sku":"GKD23985BR","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0790\/7436\/1652\/files\/3709138-2416728.jpg?v=1782057705","url":"https:\/\/www.fye.com\/products\/this-magnificent-cake_aec-gkd23985br","provider":"FYE","version":"1.0","type":"link"}