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.
Director : Sergey Oldenburg-Svintsov
Writer : Aleksandra Ivchenko, Dmitry Lemeshev, Andrey Esaulov, Olga Hirina, Anastasia Arysheva, Igor Ladanyuk
Cast
Anna Chipovskaya
Anton Shagin
Agniya Ditkovskite
Konstantin Kryukov
Alisa Grebenshchikova
Anna Starshenbaum