Cuarentena Baking launches the most awaited collaboration of the year

Starting from February 14 to February 21, you can enjoy the 4 amazing cakes from the collaboration between MUBI and Cuarentena Baking, which are a tribute to the most popular films on the platform. So if you're looking for the perfect gift for this month of love and friendship, choose one of these cakes, as each one is priced at $480.To celebrate Valentine's Day this 2023, MUBI, the global streaming platform, film producer, and distributor, presents a special collaboration with Cuarentena Baking, the dark kitchen that emerged during the pandemic led by visual artists Andrea Ferrero and David Ayala-Alfonso. From February 14 to February 21, Cuarentena Baking alongside MUBI presents a series of baby cakes created especially for film lovers, featuring photos of various crushes from some of the platform's most popular movies. With the signature style of Cuarentena Baking, you can gift your loved one a heart-shaped cake with a photo of Paul Mescal in AFTERSUN, Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard in ANNETTE, Penélope Cruz in VOLVER, or the iconic couple from IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE.As part of the month of love and friendship, MUBI also presents a special section, WITH LOVE IN MIND, which brings together 2 films specially selected to enjoy this month: the cult classic BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY by Sharon Maguire, UK; and the story of a teenage romance, SUGAR KISSES by Carlos Cuarón, Mexico. To add to these two releases on the platform, the MUBI team selected 6 more films from its catalog to enjoy this month. Here are 8 films you can't miss on MUBI during the month of love and friendship: 1. BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY (Sharon Maguire, England, 2001): Bridget Jones is a thirty-something single woman filled with insecurities, whose love life is a disaster. She has only two ambitions: to lose weight and to find true love. On New Year's Day, she makes two resolutions: to lose weight and to start a diary. But soon her love life becomes complicated again as she finds herself torn between two men. *Available from February 12 2. SUGAR KISSES (Carlos Cuáron, Mexico, 2013): Nacho is a boy trying to survive the early years of his adolescence by dancing in a techno dance machine. His life changes dramatically when he meets Mayra, the daughter of a powerful and fearsome woman who leads street vendors known as La diabla, who strongly opposes her daughter being friends with someone like Nacho. Together, Mayra and Nacho face what comes with the innocence and hope of a first great love. *Available from February 14 3. BERGMAN ISLAND (Mia Hansen-Løve, France, Belgium, 2021): Chris and Tony, a filmmaking couple, retreat one summer to Fårö Island to write in the place where Bergman lived and found inspiration. As they both work on their scripts, memories of Chris's first love resurface. Soon the line between reality and fiction blurs and tears apart. *Available 4. COLD WAR (Paweł Pawlikowski, Poland, France, 2018): Post-war Poland. Wiktor and Zula fall obsessively and destructively in love. As musicians forced to be part of the Soviet propaganda machine, they dream of escaping to the freedom of the West. An opportunity arises to leave for Paris, and they make a decision that will mark their lives forever (Nominated for three Oscars).*Available 5. BLUE VALENTINE (Derek Cianfrance, United States, 2010): Far from what was once a passionate romance, Cindy and Dean are married and have a small daughter. Hoping to save their marriage, they escape to a themed hotel where they are flooded with memories of when they first met and fell in love… full of life and hope.*Available6. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (Wong Kar Wai, Hong Kong, 2000): Hong Kong, 1962, Chow Mo-wan and Su Li-zhen move into neighboring apartments on the same day. Their encounters are polite and formal until a discovery about their respective partners ignites the flame of an intimate relationship. A masterful evocation of romantic longing. *Available 7. THE WORLD AFTER US (Louda Ben Salah, France, 2021): After a small success with a short story, Labidi, an aspiring writer, tries to publish his first novel. While delivering food to survive and sharing a room with a friend, he becomes entangled in a romance with Elisa, a student, but the reality of everyday life soon confronts him. *Available 8. THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE (Luis Buñuel, France, Spain 1977): Mathieu, a sophisticated and wealthy Frenchman, desperately falls in love with Conchita, his 19-year-old maid. Thus begins a cat-and-mouse game in which Mathieu tries to win the girl's affection while she manipulates his carnal desires, in a competition for absolute control over each other. *Available Don't think twice, as the cakes and desserts from Cuarentena Baking have become objects of desire.