Coffee and Cigarettes (2003)

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Directed by
Jim Jarmusch

Written by
Jim Jarmusch

Cast
Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright, Joie Lee, Cinqué Lee, Steve Buscemi [more]

Coffee and Cigarettes Reviews

Sometimes movies tire us by trying too relentlessly to pound us with their brilliance and energy. Here is a movie pitched at about the energy level of a coffee break. That the people are oddly assorted and sometimes very strange is not so very unusual, considering some of the conversations you overhear in Starbucks. [read review]  --Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) Myself, I loved it -- as much for the self-conscious banality and surreal pointlessness of its dialogue, which unravels over the course of 11 more or less unrelated vignettes, as for its austerely retro black-and-white photography, courtesy of a quartet of talented cinematographers... [read review] --Michael O'Sullivan (Washington Post) A series of 11 vignettes that range from instantly forgettable to simmeringly sage, Coffee and Cigarettes offers various oddball encounters that touch on themes of celebrity, physics, physic (as in the art of healing), professional jealousy, music and miscommunication. [read review]  --Steven Rea (Philadelphia Inquirer) Coffee and Cigarettes is agreeably benign, but it ultimately feels like the tossed-off side-project of an artist biding his time before tackling something substantive. [read review]  --Nicholas Schager (FilmCritic.com) A good cast in a project like this with a solid film noir flare...a supreme opportunity for its actors to fly in their performances, and then it all sputters along. [read review] C+ --Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info) There's real emotion in the final piece, a telltale sign that Jarmusch's high-concept, visually stylized creation is something more than the sum of its parts. [read review]  --Megan Lehmann (New York Post) Much like the title substances, “Coffee and Cigarettes” is barely digestible, but a reasonable way to kill time and enjoy some company. [read review] B+ --Brian Orndorf (FilmJerk.com)

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