Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Synopsis
Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.
Where to watch
Not currently available to stream in United States.
Top cast
Anna Chipovskaya
Girl (segment The Constant)
Anton Shagin
Guy (segment The Constant)
Agniya Ditkovskite
Kerry, Killer (segment 'Tico's Contract')
Konstantin Kryukov
Restaurant Manager (segment Plumber)
Alisa Grebenshchikova
Diane (segment Diane)
Anna Starshenbaum
Girl (segment La Dolce Vita)
Gérard Depardieu
He (segment 'Two, Deux')
Aleksandr Bashirov
Gravedigger (segment Poor Yorick)
Aleksandr Peskov
Laertes (segment Poor Yorick)
Evdokiya Germanova
Flora - Professor (segment Flora and Fauna)