BAGDAD CAFE (1987) Directed by Percy Adon - CINEMIN review

This film is not part of the Criterion Collection (at least for now) but I certainly hope that one day it will be. So if you don’t know this film, maybe ask why. There is no lack of reasons in my opinion to fall in love with this film. Starting with the story in which two women who do not know each other and who will both be abandoned by their respective residents in the middle of the Mohave Desert. A little later, their fate will meet at a place called Bagdad Cafe - a gas station with a small motel in which the owner Brenda (the excellent CCH Pounder) tries to deal with her problems. She is the mother of two adult children plus a gallery of guests at least exotic and certainly the place is not a travel destination. As a matter of fact, Brenda has no time for herself and certainly the place is also quite abandoned and dirty. And in this context, Jasmin (Marianne Sagebrecht - the excellent German actress) who was also abandoned by her husband, and who is just on the road in search of somew