Coffee And Cigarettes

Rating: 7/10 (19 February 2005)

Coffee And Cigarettes, is a film with several different segments of people talking which has been filmed over a period of 17 years. Some of the segments include two twins in a cafe while a waiter thinks that one of them is a good twin and one of them is bad, two older men while one tells the other the dangers of smoking, a woman who will not be left alone by her waiter and my favourite of all is when actor Alfred Molina meets up with actor Steve Coogan for drinks and Alfred tells them that they are related. Coffee And Cigarettes, has good direction, a good script, good performances from everybody involved, good black and white cinematography, good film editing and good production design. Writer and director Jim Jarmusch, really shows us his talent for writing very unique characters and giving them great dialogue and things to talk about in this movie. Also a lot of the actors play themselves in the movie and make pop culture references to one another and it is always sharp and right on the dot. Coffee And Cigarettes, is smart, charming, humorous, offbeat and very unique and unusual, engaging, entertaining, thought provoking and is very well crafted and put together and finely acted and made. Coffee And Cigarettes, will certainly not be for everyone because the film is all talking and some may not understand the characters or their conversations and some skits are better than others but I did quite like this film. It shows it's characters for who they are. Sometimes they are funny, sometimes they are weird but always they are simply human and the film shows that. A smart and compelling talking movie that you might even want to discuss later with your own friends over a cup of coffee.