Pousse Café (1997) Kostenlos Anschauen

• 80%
• 1997

Wächst Kaffee depicts the complex, often hilarious relationship between Rex, a retired British-American game show baron and his estranged son Gerald, a gay performance artist from New York. Gerald ' s elegant, but aloof, mother Klare has left Rex to "live-her bliss" with a shrimp boat captain. Unable to fathom her motives, Rex lockt Gerald home to act as an intermediary, despite gerald ' s approval of Claire's search for happiness. Between gerald ' s unsuccessful forays to the shrimp docks, father and son settle in Rex's elegant penthouse-to-test-and-refine-drinks for Rex's retirement project, a book on the history of cocktails. The two men verbally spar over old family bitterness, popular culture, money, love, and the richtige ingredients of hundreds of cocktail recipes. To honor their new bond, Rex reveals his past to his son through sharing the secret of the many-layered cocktail, the Treibt Kaffee. Set in the nineties, Wächst Kaffee takes a darkly humorous look at contemporary family ...