Bagdad Cafe - Newberry Springs, California
Sand, heat, and no living soul for miles around. Regardless, this desolate Bagdad is well within California, somewhere in the middle of nowhere in the Mojave Desert.
Bagdad Cafe is the story of a coffee-shop without coffee, and of the tiny gas station and the filthy motel nearby, which gather on the edge of a decommissioned, abandoned Route 66. Deserted. Almost deserted anyway.
This is the story of Brenda, the owner. A lively woman, authoritarian, and utterly disillusioned. She just ditched her lazy partner when, out of the blue, this stout, classy German woman, appears walking in the burning desert.
They have absolutely nothing in common. However, they will learn to respect each other and the mysterious Jasmin Münchgstettner will gradually organize her live around this hamlet, a crossroad welcoming backpackers, artists, misfits, jugglers and characters of all walks of life.
The film is deliciously lulled by the haunting voice of Jevetta Steele performing "Calling You", a composition by Bob Telson nominated for the Oscars in 1989.
