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Release Date: 21 September, 2004 Retail Price: $14.95 OUR Price: $9.47 You SAVE: $5.48! Cast: |
Coffee and Cigarettes Reviews
Awful, just plain awful
Not worthy of much discussion. Stupid, ugly, deadly boring, but worse than that. The actors look & act like they had a gun to their heads.
I do love those viewers who praise the blackness of the blacks & the whiteness of the white (film tones not people).
Brilliant Piece of Cinematography
If ever there was a film to polarize an audience this is it. Some will see it as unfathomable and boring, others will see it as an absolute gem. I'm with the latter group. Off the top the quality of the filming is superb. Wonderful rich black and white compositions filmed with quirky and off kilter crops. The cast is impressive Albert Molina, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Bill Murray to name just a few. Each performs an odd cameo piece in a stark documentary style. Everything feels ad-libbed with long awkward pauses and strange twists of conversations. One scene consists solely of a beautiful woman (Renee French) smoking a cigarette, reading a magazine and trying to stop the waiter from refilling her cup. It's almost 10 minutes long. Another scene has two Wiseguys swearing at each other as one tries to persuade the other to quite smoking. A lot of people will be squirming in their seats waiting for something to happen in this movie and it never does. Instead we are given the chance to eavesdrop on a series of social interactions which occur with a sense of reality and end as abruptly as they started. It really is a masterpiece, but not everyone will know it.
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