
This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place.... (Full plot summary below)
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This tragicomedy is a self-ironic portrait of a young man who drops out of university and ends up wandering the streets of the city he lives: Berlin. The film deals with the desire to participate in life and the difficulty to find one's place.
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| Chicago ReaderBen SachsWriter-director Jan Ole Gerster employs a loose, episodic structure that feels closer in spirit to TV comedy than feature filmmaking; though often funny, the movie never feels like more than the sum of its parts. |
| VarietyPeter DebrugeThis day-in-the-life indie says something profound about an entire generation simply by watching a feckless young man try to figure it out. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaThere's a muted absurdist thread running through A Coffee in Berlin, and while Niko's quest for the titular brew devolves into a series of whimsical frustrations, the filmmaker's motives are more serious. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfDespite Schilling's dutiful effort to embody a man who's trying to slip out of view, A Coffee in Berlin runs out of inspiration, and even the Woody Allen adoration isn't enough to bring it back to life. |
| Film-Forward.comNora Lee MandelA day in the life of a slacker beautifully reveals old, new, amusing, and ironic contradictions in changing Berlin. His past and the city's keep seeping through the present. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe film's surprising, enveloping jazz score is often deliberately at odds with Niko's moody outlook. |
| indieWireEric KohnThere's wisdom lurking in its light, witty approach, which gradually transforms from a series of silly misadventures into something far more perceptive. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonA Coffee in Berlin is only a good film, but it does have a very good ending. |
| NewcityRay PrideHe's not nearly young Werther: just a young ditherer. |
| Paste MagazineTravis M. AndrewsBerlin is gorgeously shot in black and white and scored with loose, atmospheric jazz as Niko wanders from one seemingly unrelated event to another. |