Attended the premiere screening of Coffee & Cigarettes with two friends. With an impressive cast that includes the likes of Bill Murray, Cate Blanchett, Jack and Meg Black, Roberto Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, and Tom Waits, among others, the movie didn't disaapoint. Shot entirely in black and white over the course of two years, the movie portrayed several vignettes in a variety of different coffee shops. Keep an eye out for the checkered pattern that manifests itself in various forms throughout the movie.
I loved Bill Murray's vignette, Delirium, as well as Alfred Molina and Steve Coogan's, Cousins?, but my favorite was the last one.
champagne
Two wrinkled older men on a coffee break banter about Paris in the 1920s and the music of Mahler. One wants to pretend that the coffee they are sipping is champagne, in order to celebrate life - the way that elegant people do. Dreams and pragmatism, the darkness of a brick-faced back room, the swirling of cigarette smoke in the air, the comfortable banter of two friends and colleagues grown accustomed to each other over years of coffee breaks together...beauty in simplicity.
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