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A 20th Century Chocolate Cake
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'A 20th Century Chocolate Cake' is a Canadian comedy docufiction film, directed by Lois Siegel and released in 1983."A slice of life served with fiction". 'The Globe and Mail', July 16, 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."Lois Siegel's A 20th Century Chocolate Cake". 'Cinema Canada', July/August 1983.
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."The baking of a chocolate cake". 'Cinema Canada', June 1983. 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.
Andr Vincelli received Genie Award nominations for Best Original Score and Best Original Song at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984."11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". 'The Globe and Mail', February 10, 1984.
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