Review of A Coffee in Berlin

"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."

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