As far the idea of broken glass, leaves the feeling of hopelessness and disconnection. 7/10. (A Coffee and Berlin, 2012) is a surprising tragi-comedy. Petty first movie, little original & quite overrated, Film Review - A Coffee in Berlin (2012) 6.8/10, An Excellent Movie About Feeling Meaningless. "Oh Boy" is a black-and-white Berlin-set tale of melancholy starring tom Schilling and directed by Jan Ole Gerster. This movie follows a vaguely lost Berliner as he spends a day in his city after moving into a new apartment. Cinemark Chromosom Filmproduktion, December 23, 2014 Oh Boy is somewhat reminiscent of Prozac Nation. A terrific gem about urban youth, life, Germany and the absurdity of all of it. Brilliant! I would agree. All Critics (52) There are no approved quotes yet for this movie. Did you know that you can go swimming right after you eat? How hard can it be to get "A Coffee in Berlin"? |, June 26, 2014 For more than 20 years Berlin has to cope with the steady flow of young newcomers ("Zugereiste") from (German) boondocks, may they be students, "creatives" or other types of birds fleeing their nest. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 3, Fall TV First Look: Find Out What’s Coming, The Best Peacock Original Shows and Movies, All Upcoming Disney Movies: New Disney Live-Action, Animation, Pixar, Marvel, and More. Great musical score by Cherilyn MacNeil and The Major Minors. Really quite good at showing us all the issues that weigh on him, but he keeps on trucking. By Bernard Boo@BJ_Booon June 20, 2014. Nice melancholic thoughtful end, with some optimism. Or listening to people talk nonsense. A largely enjoyable, understated picture that will tickle those with a taste for DIY indies and the French New Wave. It might have been interesting to see the locale in colour. User Ratings One reviewer described the movie as a love letter to Berlin. All the supporting players do a very fine job too, even if they only appear in a single scene like Schüttler, von Dohnányi, Lau or Brambach, a personal favorite. Shot in black and white Berlin shows itself beautifully. If you see, towards the end, average shots of Berlin turned into looking poetic… you know the film has found its tone just on the right note. A Cup of Pleasure in film making that scored high with me because of its thoughtful humor, wonderful acting, crisp black and white film work, and commentary on the problems of young men fitting into a modern world. And no, this is no deep dialog. As it is, he is "a victim of inertia," says Washington Post reviewer Stephanie Merry, a young man who has so far chucked his opportunities into an ocean of cool. “A Coffee in Berlin” is a coming-age-film that never overcomes its own adolescence. Funny school, didn't teach him a single thing about movie-making. Jan Ole Gerster is still relatively unknown, a director who wrote and directed so far his greatest success. Berlin, of course, HAS to be in b&w, so cue references to Wenders of Alice in the Cities, especially the view out of the window over the elevated railway, not to mention Wings of Desire. the new is the normality - a society where kids of rich parents can afford not to work and just wonder around city while enjoying simple pleasures of sex/drugs and sarcasm. The music is eerie in the right places. A Coffee In Berlin movie reviews & Metacritic score: Niko (Tom Schilling) lives for the moment as he drifts through the streets of Berlin, curiously observing everyone around him and oblivious to … Learning life's lesson the hard way. There is humor, tragedy, love and drama in those 24 hours. We see a lot just observing. |, July 10, 2014 Niko (Tom Schilling) is a baby-faced lad of about 20, has no luck finding a cup. And in this winning, dry and hip character comedy, he's a bit lost.oiding commitment to his cute girlfriend. A movie describing the life of someone who can't find his place around people, how he feels that people became strangers to him, but actually, it's him becoming a stranger to himself. A Coffee in Berlin. | Rating: 3/4 He only maintains viewer sympathy because everyone else in the film is so obnoxious. No slapstick comedy here. All he wants is a ##$$%% cup of coffee, and his day just keeps worse and worse. Where kids are still bullying the fatties (without making connections with Nazis bullying their victims). Which he is unable too. Please click the link below to receive your verification email. |, October 18, 2014 A Coffee in Berlin’s black-and-white imagery and jazzy music could signal the cinematic Berlin of noir and espionage, but scruffy Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling, star of Generation War) is a very contemporary guy when his girlfriend catches him sneaking out of bed to avoid her in the morning. Along the way, we see much of Berlin. Such a shame that she is so unstable. NY could learn a lot from The Berlin school. Lots of talking heads all around. All rights reserved. The continued running gag of no coffee gets an enormous emotional payoff in the film's contemplative final moment. It manages to make an entertaining story out of nothing in particular. | comedy, That this film exists in it's current form is as ridiculous as letting a hack medicine student who can't tell a scalpel from scissors perform plastic surgery. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Don't have an account? "Oh Boy" features the same "plot" as countless art-house and student movies: A young man drifts through a big city, meets strange people, the end. Also, he played a minor role in making "Good Bye Lenin". "A Coffee in Berlin" is a well made movie about the trials of life that can befall a young and not particularly self-confident man who has such a day. I read that this is the film makers first effort. Swimming - just one of many, many fun and useful things you can do that is not seeing this movie. I hope that there will be more films coming from the people who made this one. |, June 20, 2014 There is probably a fancy name for this, but most people just call it pointless, boring, a waste of time. You want Niko to pull himself together and for the sparks of empathy we see to flame into action. It hurts, someone get him a coffee please! Yeah it's in black in white, i can see that. Amiably slight, A Coffee in Berlin compensates for its lack of narrative drive with a sure-handed screenplay and echoes of early Woody Allen. "On the one hand, Gerster is irrefutably remarkable to condense a gallimaufry of quiddities, that suffuse the contemporary milieu into its slender running time, but on the other hand, some of his choices are too stereotyped, like the proverbial understanding that Germans are built without funny bones, even for a performance inside a black-box theater, "funny" still is an insulting word to a supposedly avant-garde mind, also, the sex dynamism between Niko and Julika (Kempter), leaves a bitter taste in the mouth, the portrayal of a girl using sexual appeal as her go-to criterion of self-actualization is myopic, not to mention, minutes ago, she is the one who just valiantly confronts three cads without batting an eyelid, she should have been wiser, so should be the one who authors that scenario.". We get to see a measure of his moral and ethical fiber. |, November 20, 2018 External Reviews One of those flames occurs near the end of the film, when he hears a rambling, drunken tale that calls forth thoughts of people who really had it bad. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. FAQ A charming slacker promenades about Berlin streets. Regarding "Oh Boy" there is really no point in arguing with them. A boy lost in this city, and also in his own life. | Rating: 3/4 Director Jan Ole Gerster lacks the confidence to set his main character genuinely adrift, instead caging him in scenes of cloying seriocomedy. The movie reflects the play of colors, through a black and white melancholy in the backdoors of Berlin, which brings a big city atmosphere. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. A Coffee In Berlin may have well been titled “Niko and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.” This poor guy can’t catch a break- but it’s these series of unfortunate events that make him relatable to audiences. We get to see his interaction with a girl he used to bully in highschool for being fat, who had a crush on him. As a German living abroad for the past 12 years, it's been a surprising pleasure to see, back in Berlin, this little jewel of a movie. A COFFEE IN BERLIN, originally titled OH BOY is Jan Ole Gerster debut feature and Gerster gives Niko the perfect handicap to keep him from simply taking control of his own life. 77% TOMATOMETER Just confirm how you got your ticket. Film Review: ‘A Coffee in Berlin’ The German indie that went all the way at the country's film awards has much in common with classic Sundance soul-searchers. There is a theme in the movie and I'm not talking about the growing up part. Some days simply don't go well. Niko (Tom Schilling) in "A Coffee in Berlin." Awards I must mention the editing, sometimes it is dysfunctional in transition, so the story becomes a little bit stiff. They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. At least half of the film is super embarrassing self-referring stuff like our non-acting "hero" sitting on a movie set. (A Coffee and Berlin, 2012) is a surprising tragi-comedy. Visibly influenced by Woody Allen, not only in its black and white but also in the downbeat mood, the jazz score and mainly the deliciously wry humor, Gerster's impressive debut as a filmmaker tells a very thoughtful story about a young man who feels like he doesn't belong anymore. (Music Box Pictures) It's fun to spot the influences in "A Coffee in Berlin," an 83-minute movie that swept last year's German Oscars. Niko Fischer played by Schilling, who interrupted his studies and is trying to find himself in Berlin. 5:31 PM PST 11/6/2012 ... short-term goal of enjoying a cup of coffee into a deftly handled running joke. I actually did feel a little bit of tension from time to time thinking something would go wrong and in fact our poor laid-back hero continually meets nut jobs or people you think could be friendly ...until they go nuts. | Rating: B+ The rough day turns into a bad night, but then... when morning comes, we are given just a smidge of hope. Directed by Jan Ole Gerster. That looked like it could have been a really nice relationship. Would he had gotten it, and he might have been better prepared for his frustrating encounters with his girlfriends (present and possible future), his dad, the creator of an unintentionally hilarious performance art piece, and some drunken toughs, among others. Whilst the nouvelle vague phenomenon continues in NY, it's seems Berlin, and Jan Ole Gerster actually has something to say. Arte, A Coffee in Berlin, also known by the name Oh Boy, is calm, cool and collected, a black and white German indie thats as much French New Wave as it is early Richard Linklater.Following a day in the life of Niko Fischer (Tom Schilling), a late-20’s slacker who dropped out of school two years ago, Jan Ole Gerster’s comedy is much more complex than its American counterparts. and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes and Fandango. Poor guy. That in itself is amazing since the movie shows such maturity in the craft. It is an anti-"Coming of Age" film, showing how people refuse to "grow up" - even supposed adults. One reviewer described the movie as a love letter to Berlin. Oh, you mean the meaning is that it has no meaning? That went on for quite a long time, but this IS a film about Berlin, so clearly someone thought it was important to include here. Not too much talking. A Coffee in Berlin, also titled Oh Boy, is a 2012 German tragicomedy film directed by Jan-Ole Gerster.It is in black-and-white. |, July 10, 2014 In spite of its insufferably whimsical tendencies - exemplified by its original title, "Oh Boy" - the film may have turned out to be a deeply profound modern postscript about fascism. Niko is a drinker, and when he drinks, he finds himself in trouble. I mentioned Katharina Schüttler and I liked how the words displayed on the screen "Oh Boy" perfectly fit her interaction with our "hero" early on in the film. It hurts, someone get him a coffee please! | Rating: C+ Cheap, pseudo, uninspired. Thanks to multiple drunk… A COFFEE IN BERLIN, originally titled OH BOY is Jan Ole Gerster debut feature and Gerster gives Niko the perfect handicap to keep him from simply taking control of his own life. With Tom Schilling, Katharina Schüttler, Justus von Dohnányi, Andreas Schröders. Just leave us a message here and we will work on getting you verified. It is to focus on its central importance. And that's a fact. No it isn't. You're almost there! Try watching it. Good stuff. | Top Critics (26) |, September 26, 2018 Coming Soon. We get to see how he handles the death of a stranger. Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 Top Critic |. A fateful day pushes an aimless college dropout (Tom Schilling) to stop wasting his time and finally engage with life. This German Film is so Simple in a way that actually gets you thinking, a Must Watch but don't do that if you feel sad or depressed. Huh huh cool, huh huh. It's just meaningless nonsense, 90% of the time. I'm talking about the part where the lead character has to make decisions. The percentage of users who rated this 3.5 stars or higher. Directed by Jan-Ole Gerster. Film. Review: A Coffee in Berlin. We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your account. Review: Julien Temple’s Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan. Copyright © Fandango. It is the director's debut film, and thesis project for the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin.. Step by step the young guy's everyday-life situations pull you in, develop a light but melancholic atmosphere in which great acting, a pensive and funny script, music that reminds the best of Miles Davis and awesome black-and-white camera-work form a wonderful whole of a movie. Tom Schilling gives a solid performance here, starring as Niko Fischer, a young man, living in Berlin, who's lost his way in life and is currently broke, unemployed, has no serious relationships, and is still taking tuition money from his father without telling him he dropped out of law school some 2 years before. In 2014, the film was released in the US under the title A Coffee in Berlin Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. The movie only runs for little over 80 minutes and depicts conversations and interactions between the central character and usually one or two other people. Grainy, gritty black and white photography of Berlin. You cannot make an omelet, without breaking eggs. They say Gerster was a film student? Jan Ole Gerster's debut film, starring Tom Schilling as Niko (originally titled Oh, Boy), has created a likable if drifting protagonist and given him situations punctuated with absurd humor. It doesn't really try anything at all. So, with that non-prolific background, it was certainly a bit surprising how many awards this movie achieved and that it became the great winner at the German Film Awards that year. A Coffee in Berlin. | A Coffee In Berlin Review Middling Although expertly acted and photographed, A Coffee in Berlin is a drifting deadpan comedy that could have used a shot of caffeinated energy. It hurts, someone get him a coffee please! It all sounds rather dire, but in ­writer-director Jan Ole Gerster’s “A Coffee in Berlin,” the proceedings are actually quite entertaining in a mildly farcical way — at least at first. A Coffee in Berlin is only a good film, but it does have a very good ending. I Might emphasize extremely but it is a well-written story, with a crunchy plot, which is both dynamic and interesting. There is a bit of a 'funny' line in the movie that allows for some hope: the inability to get a cup of coffee during the unlucky day and a cup available during final shop, at the dawn of the next day. And the Berlin footage? It shows that everyone, even pretty good people, are internally tortured and deeply flawed. | Rating: 2/4 Many typical Berlin peculiarities come into play, sometimes a bit constructed, but also funny at times. Lots of small supporting parts in the film as well, by some famous german actors. Forgot your password? As sure of itself visually in its black-and-white evocations of Berlin as its protagonist is unsure of himself and his future. Hessischer Rundfunk, No raunchy jokes like we get in films made and about young people. Niko's father is childish, his friend an underachieving actor and the former classmate he runs into is in a way still the little girl with a crush on him. The past is the nazism and collective guilt, that is receding, yet has its imprint on the people. |, November 8, 2018 By Peter Debruge You could argue, that is part of growing up, but it's just a theme that runs through many people and will touch a nerve. A largely enjoyable, understated picture that will tickle those with a taste for DIY indies and the French New Wave. These guys, born in the 80s, grew up in when new German mentality is being formed, Germany that is normal and yet still struggling with its past. Please enter your email address and we will email you a new password. The protagonist is an unlikable, spoilt child, leeching off others while breezing through life. This day is filled with several episodes in which director Jan-Ole Gerster manages to portrait the various aspects of life in modern Berlin - whether its the Kafkaesque bureaucracy one has to deal with on a daily basis or the never-ending struggle to find normality in the midst of hipsterdom and self-proclaimed avantgarde attitude which makes Berlin so popular amongst party people all over the world. Tom Schilling does a great job of showing us a pretty rough day in one man's life. We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. The film premiered at the 2012 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Niko is having a really bad day. But I think that it would have detracted, distracted me from the powerful message behind the movie. | Fresh (40) It's amazing that it hangs together as well as it does. Would I have preferred this movie in colour? Metacritic Reviews. This movie directly highlights that. He had only done a couple things prior to this, but does a fine job. The dialog is sharp and meaningful. |, March 28, 2019 The percentage of Approved Tomatometer Critics who have given this movie a positive review. The dry humor in the film is subtle but effective - it's easy to see why A Coffee In Berlin an academy favorite. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! And just when you get comfortable passively observing a passive observer, the minutest of twists becomes its own call to action. Where ridiculous films about important things in life are being shot. Sounds boring? |, June 23, 2014 It doesn't even try to be written and/or performed in a poetic or artistic way of any sorts. Niko's problem is not just that he's spoiled and lazy, but that he's a wimp about it. We never see Niko drunk, and he only drinks on-screen a couple of times, but you can… It's an outsider's view that lacks real insight, although, fortunately, hipsters & their electronic devices are absent. Good choice of b/w to show the lights of the city and remind of the famous 20s. Review: A Coffee in Berlin By Morgan Wilcock on June 10, 2014 Chronic dissatisfaction, self-absorption, financial dependence, laziness—the dominant traits of the Gen Y gene are hardly desirable when it comes to generating the lead character of a film. Now watch me take a big fat sh*t on that canvas, how you like that, you art experts? Or watching a stage play. Coming Soon. Calm, cool and collected, [it's] a black and white German indie thats as much French New Wave as it is early Richard Linklater. I got the Taxi Driver reference early on, but the film actually reminded me a bit of Scorsese's brilliant After Hours, but it didn't want to be quite that kooky and sustained. It's slow and at the beginnen strange but definitely worth it. Tom Schilling plays the part with a hint of melancholy which is fascinating to watch. It's really just crap. |, April 12, 2016 and the Terms and Policies, 'A Coffee in Berlin': AFI Fest Review. We follow the protagonist Niko Fischer, played by a superb Tom Schilling, through an entire day in vernal Berlin. We get to see is damages relationship with his father due to lying. Your AMC Ticket Confirmation# can be found in your order confirmation email. This movie is a petty comedy, made by newcomers for newcomers, juxtaposing every imaginable Berlin cliché. I enjoyed A Coffee in Berlin. Review: Superintelligence Keeps a Lid on Melissa McCarthy’s Comic Energy. Movie Reviews by Michael Phillips Reports of the slim but impressive 83-minute German film "A Coffee in Berlin" -- titled "Oh Boy" in its popular initial European release -- have been inflated by the picture winning scads of awards in its country of origin upon initial release. Simple in a way that actually gets you thinking. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. | Rating: B+ Cinemark Along the way, we see much of Berlin. Coming Soon. He has many jarring experiences, is short on money, never seems to have a lighter to smoke cigarettes, and can't quite track down somewhere or something that will provide him with a coffee. Regal Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". More so, it allows our minds to wander in and out of the picture, which isn't a terrible quality; certain audiences are known to relish this disaffected approach. It's a film I shall want to see many times, because it's the type of film that I'll probably understand the more and experience the more deeply with each successive viewing of it, and there aren't many movies like that. By creating an account, you agree to the Privacy Policy "A Coffee in Berlin" veers confidently from melancholy to absurdity and back, and then back again. Schilling is basically in every scene of the film. Interesting film about a day or two into the life of a lost young man. Just saw this movie, and still struggling to understand what it is about really, so for me its mostly about a certain generation of people in a certain city. Jan-Ole Gerster's "Oh, Boy," which is called in America, "A Coffee in Berlin," is one of the most gorgeously cinematographed or filmed movies of all time, the stills from which could be framed separately as photo-masterpieces, one after another -- in the hundreds if not thousands of them -- and then displayed in a museum, simply as a succession of photographic masterpieces; but this is instead a motion picture, in which, additionally, the script, acting, casting, musical score, and, of course (doesn't it naturally follow from all those) the direction, are literally breathtaking, and the total impression from that profusion of artistic brilliance left this viewer deeply moved. How quickly can someone get lost in the extent of a city? An aimless university dropout attempts to make sense of life as he spends one fateful day wandering the streets of Berlin. | Rating: 7/10 Don’t worry, it won’t take long. Niko Fischer played by Schilling, who interrupted his studies and is trying to find himself in Berlin. The soundtrack is echoing the jazz era's swing (lindy hop and electoswing are very popular among that generation of euros), the black/white style with a lot of closeups reminds of the era too (and of some other movies). There are moments of smirk-worthy humor and there aren't any overt errors, but it's just so unambitious that A Coffee in Berlin fails to leave a substantial emotional impact of any kind. It doesn't end there, even Germany itself refuses to "grow up", clinging to its Nazi past and sticking to absurd bureaucracy. I'd say this a movie that goes nowhere but it's worth the trip! The comedy is underplayed. Looks like he's not getting his driver's license back, his father has shut off his bank account for being a slacker, and he gets busted for not having a ticket for the subway. The movie is totally immature, narcissistic crap, and it doesn't even try rebellion... how pathetic is this? | drama, Schiwago Film GmbH, Who said that the Germans don't have a sense of humor. Damned near impossible, it turns out. | With a lighter touch than that strained metaphor might suggest, Gerster has considerably better navigational skills than his main protagonist, making "A Coffee in Berlin" an enjoyable romp. The film is both silly and profound, a … The offbeat outing A Coffee in Berlin swept up the 2013 Deutscher Filmpreis Awards, and is said to have announced a major new talent in first-time filmmaker Jan Ole Gerster.That may seem like slightly effusive praise on the face of it -- this is a minimalist seriocomedy, not the sort of stylistic tour de force that heralds a new directorial voice. "A Coffee in Berlin" is a well made movie about the trials of life that can befall a young and not particularly self-confident man who has such a day. Niko is a drinker, and when he drinks, he finds himself in trouble. That the guy is locked inside his inability to act? It hurts, someone get him a coffee please! The film is presented in a very cool black and white with a fantastic Jazz-like soundtrack. If you want directorial comparisons, the movies of the great director Guy Madden, and the two great movies from David Lynch, can be compared with this one, for their haunting effects and deeply offbeat and surprising turns of script and for their images which (like this one's) burn themselves into one's consciousness at a deep enough level to become a permanent feature of a receptive viewer's being. | Rotten (12). I felt most sorry about, and for, the girl from his old school who is obsessed with being fat and is as thin as a rake when they re-find each other. One of the characters, an old man he bumps into at the coffee shop goes into a long tirade talking about Kristallnacht, and how it affected him as a small child. In Gerster's view, Berlin's unresolved past taints its bustling charm and glossy serenity, as well as every familiar course of practical action-yet his movie veers toward the historical kitsch that he satirizes. The title of this award-winning 2014 German film is a tease, since the protagonist spends the day the movie describes trying—and failing—to score a cup of joe. First time feature film writer/director Jan Ole Gerster chose to shoot “A Coffee in Berlin” in black and white, giving the film a vintage look with the city of Berlin as its backdrop. Review: Before Turning Histrionic, Uncle Frank Is a Tender Look at Outsider Kinship. It's a long time since I saw film like that this that goes absolutely nowhere in terms of plot but it's a nice relief after some of the usual high-tension I often watch. Coming Soon, Regal Sidney Poitier’s 7 Most Memorable Performances, All Harry Potter Movies Ranked Worst to Best by Tomatometer. 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