Movie #293 ........................"Coffee and Cigarettes"

Movie #293 "Coffee and Cigarettes" - sorry can't recommend this one if I only liked two out of the 11 vignettes. The one entitled "Twins" was very funny and had that Jarmusch dry humor, and "Cousins" with Cate Blanchett was a knockout --- unbelievably good. If you want to see an actress at her peak, watch this one segment (it's halfway through). I watched it wonderingly --- wondering how someone gets that good, how someone can play opposite herself and get nuances in for both characters, just HOW DO YOU DO IT? If I taught a film class, I would show this segment --- it's that good! (because I would have to start with an apology for the language, I'm thinking) The rest seemed way too slow, or pretentious, or just plain boring --- at first I thought it was an exercise on the "modern encounter", but it got too tedious for that ---- unless that is the director's point: modern encounters are just that tedious! Well, I didn't have to see a movie to get that message!




Average rating: 3.012
I gave it 2.5
Coffee and Cigarettes
(2003) R
Jim Jarmusch's ensemble comedy collects a series of strange encounters Jarmusch has been capturing in short films since the mid-1980s, presenting them as a series of vignettes that all revolve around discussions held over coffee and cigarettes. A diverse cast including Bill Murray, Steve Buscemi, Tom Waits, Cate Blanchett and Roberto Benigni address such topics as Nicola Tesla, alternative medicine, Paris, the movie industry and more.