Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes

Overview

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.

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)