Not a movie, not a series of shorts, not something you'd really want to watch

Rating: 2/10 (4 June 2007)

I guess it's indie nihilist self-indulgence, if anything. At best, the film is a series of dialogs between two or more people who have little or nothing to say to each other. The presence of coffee and cigarettes is the only unifying element, and perhaps that is what the film aspires to say: that coffee and cigarettes provide a minimalist social adhesive that binds together for a short time persons who otherwise have no basis for connection.
The black and white cinematography, the sets, and the lighting are great. The human interaction portrayed on film is tolerable at times, but often not. The weakness of the film is most clearly perceived when you consider that were it not for the celebrity status of the actors portraying most of the characters, the film would be thoroughly unwatchable and would be hooted out of the art houses.
If you're going to watch this, I suggest you do so in the presence of an abundance of coffee and cigarettes.