Caffè Sospeso

Wanted to love this but the quality and editing were very poor and distracting for something that is supposed to have passed Netflix quality control. The actual concept of the film has huge potential. Coffee is universal and the characters interviewed had things to say. The handheld camera work was unwatchable at times. The tripod work was robotic. The editing was all over the place. Took a while to understand who was where, as it jumped around without being able to establish any location to the point you could engage with it. If I were the filmmaker I would re-make it with a better script, camera and editing as it has great potential.

Three locations and messed storylines. Nothing really catches your attention as the documentary jumps here and there without a connection. Making actors saying the word "suspended" won't make it any better.

The makers committed a cardinal sin when making this documentary - they filmed a movie without an idea, allowing you to think it might be about the act and story of the suspended coffee, but no - it's a lackluster collection of stories taped together without any common thread, showing people, drinking coffee, in various parts of the world. And even if that sounds interesting to you, believe me, it isn't.

I love this film, probably because my family is from Italy and I drink a lot of espresso. There's more, I worked in TV production most of my life.

A film maker that I respect and admire told me the secret to having a great film; you've got to have a great story. "Coffee For All" has a great story...in fact it has a number of great stories. The New Yorker that admired and loved her father, the mystery writer in Buenos Aires that writes about the characters that enter his via coffee and the poor kid that gets arrested in Naples for a crime he said he did not commit. It captures the microcosm of life in the shape of a cup.

In Naples, Buenos Aires and New York, people reflect on the Neapolitan tradition of "suspended coffee" and how it changed their lives.

"Caffè Sospeso" a bit of the history of coffee, which goes beyond the drink, about kindness, altruism and philanthropy, a century-old tradition that began in the working-class cafes of Naples, when someone was lucky they paid for two coffees, they drank and the another was a "pending" or "suspended" coffee, which was highly decided upon by the less fortunate person who requested a coffee... A beautiful documentary, some say this is mere kindness, not kindness and not even being generous as that is done from the bar to the outside, interesting insight...