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Coffee
And Cigarettes
(Directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Roberto
Benigni, Steve Buscemi, Iggy Pop, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett, Meg
& Jack White, Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan and Bill Murray)
An
eclectic love letter to coffee and cigarettes - what a great, cool
idea.
What
started out as a short film made in 1986 has transmogrified into
a series of black (coffee) and white (cigarettes) vignettes in which
recognizable misfits and mainstream hipsters talk the talk while
drinking and smoking...well, you know what. (God help anyone who
takes milk!)
No
matter how bad said items are for you, they seem to carry with them
the promise of sexy, post-war European cinema and the allure of
the transcendent, unhealthy outsider.
mindfully
hip
Conversation
is an excuse to drink and smoke and, in the right idiosyncratic
situation, the talk can travel to the strangest of corners, from
Elvis conspiracy theories to the inventions of Nikolai Tesla.
There
are some shortcomings: the film falters in places due to a recognizable
pressure to be mindfully hip, and the timing is not all it could
be.
But
so what? Jarmusch fans will find enough lazy amour here to
whet the appetite. Fag break anyone?
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