A Coffee In Berlin (2012)

A COFFEE IN BERLIN  (2012)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Jan Ole Gerster
    Tom Schilling, Friedrike Kempter, Marc Hosemann,
    Andrea Schröders, Katharina Schüttler, Katharina Hauck
This movie opens with a scene straight out of "Breathless". A guy's getting dressed in a small flat in some European city. There's a girl on the bed, just waking up. The girl's got close-cropped hair and has on shorts and a striped pullover, but she's not Jean Seberg and the guy's not Belmondo, though they are being filmed in black and white, and as you learn incidentally later on, they have spent time in Paris together. The girl stirs and sits up and asks the guy where he's off to. He says he's got a couple of appointments. She asks if he'll be back around later. He says he's got a million things to do. She asks what some of those things are. He says nothing, but the look on his face says it all. He's leaving. The guy doesn't know it, but he's about to have one of the most fucked-up days of his life, one of those days when the ATM eats your credit card, and some crooks in the subway try to shake you down, and an old schoolmate turns up out of the blue and she's gorgeous and she comes on to you but she's a nutjob, and no matter how hard you try, you just can't get a cup of coffee, and on a day like this one, you really need some. Some days are like that, I guess. Some days, if you're lucky enough to wake up with a girl who looks like Jean Seberg, you should just stay put. Some days, you're just spinning your wheels, and your life isn't going to go anywhere anyway. Some days, a cup of coffee can wait till tomorrow, even in Berlin.