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A Coffee in Berlin(Oh Boy)

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Germany · 2012
1h 28m
Director Jan Ole Gerster
Starring Tom Schilling, Marc Hosemann, Friederike Kempter, Justus von Dohnányi
Genre Comedy, Drama

This black-and-white tragicomedy follows Niko, a melancholy twenty-something weighed down by possibility, as he meets the many kooks and characters of Berlin. An ironic and recognizable portrait of prolonged adolescence: the aimless college dropout wandering a major city, always in search of a cup of coffee, with slapstick humor and a jazzy score.

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The Dissolve by David Ehrlich

Sporadically amusing and sprinkled with a fine silt of truth that helps elevate Niko above the movie around him, A Coffee In Berlin is at its best when it rolls up the blueprints and lets its hero figure things out for himself.

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The Guardian by Leslie Felperin

This debut for German writer-director Jan Ole Gerster seemingly aims to transplant a mumblecore aesthetic into Berlin, with all the requisite aimless hipsters, whimsical touches and rambling narrative dips and dives; but someone forgot to add spontaneity or edge.

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Total Film by Neil Smith

Jan Ole Gerster’s deceptively slender character study has a complex undertow, subtly linking its wallflower anti-hero’s acceptance of his failings with his country’s wider atonement for its World War II past.

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Time Out London by Trevor Johnston

It’s all rather charming, though, since leading man Schilling remains affable while never underselling this kindly yet feckless dropout’s sheer spinelessness.

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