Niko is having a tough morning. He's broken up with his girlfriend, been cut off from his monthly alIowance, and was just declared "emotionally unstabIe" by a court-appointed psychologist. It only he couId find a decent cup of coffee. Painting an eventful day-in-the-Iife of a twenty-something law school dropout, A Coffee ln Berlin follows Niko as he drifts through a series of absurd, funny and, uItimately, life-changing encounters with the people 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 Film Awards, is a sIacker comedy with a poignant center, and a Iove-Ietter to the city of BerIin and Generation Y. |