In these eleven short films, the same black and white tone, the top corner camera sees Marlboro cigarettes, more or less coffee, and black and white checkered tabletops. The main characters of the conversation are usually two people, and sometimes one will join in to make things change. The content of the conversation is the neurotic boring conversation in the cafe. The camera pushes the protagonist into a corner of the cafe, deliberately out of context, allowing the protagonist to focus on each other and the audience to focus on the two of them.
"Coffee and cigarettes, is this your lunch? It's not healthy." Someone reminded, but how could our protagonists give up. In Some Where In California, Tom Waits said to Iggy Pop that he quit smoking, so he could have one, like jewelry... and they started smoking. The coffee was refilled, the cigarettes kept coming, someone was coming, someone was leaving. Strange is the relationship between people, strange to meet you.
Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, the White Stripes... "Million Dollar Hotel" director Wim Wenders once said: "Today, rock music is more connected to film than ever before, and literature, theatre and painting seem to be connected to film. Closer, but far less contemporary and direct than rock." Jarmusch and I nodded.
PS: The story synopsis on the disc jacket is pure nonsense. There are a few obvious editing mistakes and piercings, I don't know if it was intentional or not.
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