The Girl in the Café

The Girl in the Café

  • Director: David Yates
  • Countries of origin: United Kingdom, United States
  • Language: English, French
  • Release date: June 25, 2005
  • Sound mix: Stereo
  • Aspect ratio: 1.85 : 1
  • Also known as: Девушка из кафе
  • "The Girl in the Café" is a romantic TV movie directed by David Yates and starring Kelly Macdonald and Bill Nighy .
    The film tells the story of a thin, self-effacing public official Lawrence who met and fell in love with a young Scottish girl, Gina   . The film was released in the UK on June 25, 2005.

    Details

    • Release date June 25, 2005
    • Filming locations The Cumberland Hotel, Great Cumberland Place, Marylebone, London, England, UK
    • Production companies BBC Wales, Tightrope Pictures, HBO Films

    Movie reviews

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    • By Lelia 2022-04-19 09:02:47

      Don't waste time

      The male protagonist is a staff member of the Ministry of Finance, to be exact, an assistant to the British Minister of Finance. It is estimated that there are forty or fifty years old, and there is no serious girlfriend. He speaks cautiously, and looks like a small civil servant.
      In a crowded coffee shop, because there was no seat to sit with the beautiful young heroine, the two had a friendly and harmonious conversation, but the old man was too nervous. The girl said she was a student....

    • By Eileen 2022-04-19 09:02:47

      Can you hear me now?

      Bill Nighy's Lawrence is as nervous as Woody Allen, and both are willing to use words to distract them. (This is not like Bill in reality) The difference is the language ability of the two. In Woody's films, there's always chunks of his monologue, or he's rambled on to another guy and that guy can't stand it.
      And Bill's Lawrence is clumsy at all times, even when he's seated as assistant to the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

      The first half of this movie is very good. It's almost all...

    • By Joana 2022-01-22 08:03:27

      "Cafe Encounter"-the echo of the soul

      When people look back after most of their lives, they often find that they have not become the person they dreamed of when they were young.

        Lawrence devoted his entire life to the Ministry of Finance. He was wrapped in a thick suit and dealt with a bunch of serious and boring people every day. Even the jokes had something to do with financial figures. He is ignorant of the trend of young people's fiddle, but the increase in the number of bus rides can be quite precious. This life...

    • By Wilbert 2022-01-22 08:03:27

      Just feel it

      It seems to be a warm and romantic love movie, and the scene of the encounter is as familiar as the impression. However, the director's intention to express is indeed more than that, the last sentence of "sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, and u can be that generation" by Joson Mandela seems to say everything. What impressed me more deeply was the scene in the movie where Gina criticized the Secretary of Finance and Lawrence was scolded. Lawrence said at the time that he had...

    • By Nakia 2022-01-22 08:03:27

      The girl in The Café

      A good friend lent me some discs. When I saw it, I just felt empty and peaceful inside.
      "The girl in The Café" is one of them. Watched it twice.
      Lawrence is an assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United Kingdom. This job has added some elements of conformity to his character. The busy and serious atmosphere in the cold office often suffocated him.
      He sometimes takes a short time to go to a coffee shop and have a cup of coffee. It's a kind of ease. It is also an...

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    • By Laverna 2023-09-01 10:12:52

      Bill Nighy's love story is very much like a Lost in Translation setting: a huge age difference, lonely people and trapped in an exotic hotel. The girl grandpa can really make people cry, this movie is completely his personal show. It's a pity that Curtis tried to make a pure love film into a public service advertisement, and the idealism in the second half got off track, which made the plot weaker. Director David...

    • By Virgil 2023-08-26 13:00:22

      When this love story unfolds in front of a cold political background, the purest emotions, such as love and ideals, become increasingly rare and...

    • By Marley 2023-07-25 14:14:33

      A British movie with a strong Nordic temperament. Bill Nighy did a really good job of interpreting the gentle middle-aged character, and it may have been more to my liking to replace too much political content in the...

    • By Magnus 2023-03-30 14:11:06

      At first I thought it was a love fairy tale starring Uncle Octopus, the emotional crisis of a lonely middle-aged politician or something. The result was a political fairy tale. The PS director is David Yates, and the theme song at the beginning and the end is Cold Water, which is the rice that suffocates the...

    • By Annette 2023-03-17 22:27:20

      There is no end to trivial...

    Evaluation action

    Encounters are the eternal starting point of many romantic love stories. "The Girl in the Café" is still the same old tune, but it is also never tired of it. Although the male protagonist Lawrence is bald, he is like a jerky man without affection. The screenwriter Richard Curtis is so meticulous about the mentality of men. As for Bill Nighy, who played Lawrence, this time he played a middle-aged man, but he just returned to his true...
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    Movie quotes

    • Gina: Aren't you going to kiss me good night?

    • [Lawrence and Gina are discussing shopping at Marks and Spencer]

      Lawrence: I'm told it's the place for dating. I'm told people go there to shop, and they get casually talking about, you know, Spaghetti a la Carbonara and suddenly love flowers by the counter for people with under five items.

    • Chancellor of the Exchequer: Ladies and gentlemen, we're handing around new proposals. And remember, even if the Prime Minister and I are alone on this, we are not alone. Behind us stand the 30,000 children who will die of extreme poverty each day and we are proud to be their representatives. I didn't give my life to politics in order to say that I was part of a generation that succeeded in cutting the tariff on the import of processed coffee to 27.3%. I want to be a member of that great generation that for the first time had in its power to wipe out poverty, and did so. Are we alone in this? Or will someone else stand beside us?