Niko is having a tough morning. He's broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly aIlowance, and was just declared "emotionaIly unstable" by a court-appointed psychologist. It onIy he couId find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-life of a twenty-something Iaw school dropout, A Coffee ln BerIin foIIows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funny and, ultimateIy, Iife-changing encounters with the peopIe and city around him. Photographed in timeless black and white and enriched by a snappy jazz soundtrack, Jan OIe Gerster's vibrant and charming debut, which swept the German FiIm Awards, is a slacker comedy with a poignant center, and a Iove-letter to the city of BerIin and Generation Y. |