Coffee and Cigarettes

Could a black&white movie be colourful? Absolutely yes! 

I had been kind of biased against black&white movies until I watched Coffee and Cigarettes and The Artist. I used to think that it would be a waste of time if I couldn't see any colour in the movie. However, the shapes  and images were extremely vivid in this movie. Especially the chess board like tables in the cafes.

"Coffee and cigarettes" is like "Tea and cigarettes" in our culture. We have "tea" instead of "coffee"; we also have the conversation which goes with it, though. Cousins, brothers and sisters, friends and old friend chat around a chess board like table sipping their coffee (In some vignettes, it is tea) and smoking. This conversation scene seems like universal.

Each vignette includes a different piece of human feelings and situations: arrogance, weakness, friendship, pity, anger, silliness, nonsenses, scepticism, brotherhood, and so on.