Cannes Review: The President’s Cake Has All The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Cannes Review: The President’s Cake Has All The Ingredients of a Breakthrough Directorial Debut

Among the best things in The President’s Cake are the colors. There’s the deep red of a rooster’s comb as it peeks out from a young girl’s carrying pouch; there’s the white decorations that adorn her uncle’s blue car; and then there is the opening vista, in which a deep evening sky is disturbed by the roar of two American fighter jets. We’re somewhere in the ’90s, the country is Iraq, and the decorations are for its president, Saddam Hussein. So…