A 20th Century Chocolate Cake (1983)

Directed by

Lois Siegel

Genre

comedy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 10m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two young men in Montreal try to find creative satisfaction in their jobs. One is a freelance human interest writer, and the other works as a dancer in a gay bar.

quirkygentleearnestamusinglow-budgetobservationalsweet-natured

What happens

A 20th Century Chocolate Cake is a Canadian comedy docufiction film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1983. The film stars Greg Van Riel and Charles Fisch Jr. as Greg and Charles, two young men in Montreal who are trying to find creative fulfillment in their professional lives. Greg pursues work as a freelance writer of human interest journalism, while the openly gay Charles takes a job as a dancer in a gay bar. The film was an expansion of an earlier short film, Recipe to Cook a Clown, which Siegel, Van Riel, and Fisch had made together in the 1970s. Due to budgetary limitations, the film took over three years to make, went through a dozen different cinematographers, and was shot predominantly on stray ends of donated film from other film projects. André Vincelli received Genie Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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