Bayview Entertainment has selected Aug. 11 for the
DVD debut of writer/director Manjeet S. Gill’s Coffee in
Winter.
Rod (Roderick Masih — Moments
of Darkness), of Indian descent, has come to
view his arrangement with Hema (Anna Devi) as not something of dreams and a
future, but of a commitment — something to please others; to please an ethereal
“they” — that he comes to realize that he is, perhaps, not prepared for.
So a change in direction might be something to alter
how he feels. Living in London, Rod leaves
his techie job and returns to the university for instruction in photography,
this leaves Hema to carry the financial load.
It is during his course studies that he meets fellow
student Kim (Kim Bormann) … they share a passion for photography. They share photography assignments together,
meet for coffee, dinner … and slowly a love affair, but Rod still remains
detached. Almost as if he is viewing his
life unfold before him in a dream.
Filmmaker Manjeet S. Gill, in interviews and at
various screenings of Coffee in Winter, has
made it pretty clear that his film is inspired by the film Hou Hsiao Hsien (The
Assassin, Flowers of Shanghai,
etc.) … who in turn was inspired by Japanese filmmaking legend, Yasujiro
Ozu.
What emerges with Gill’s Coffee in
Winter is a lyrical, beautifully photographed tale
of a man lost in a world of his own making, but yet that he has no control
over. Lost between tradition … and
desire.
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