Smoking/No Smoking

Smoking/No Smoking

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director = Alain Resnais
producer = Bruno Pésery Michel Seydoux
writer = Agnès Jaoui Jean-Pierre Bacri
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starring = Pierre Arditi Sabine Azéma
music = John Pattison
cinematography = Renato Berta
editing = Albert Jurgenson
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country = France

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Smoking/No Smoking is a 1993 French movie. It was directed by Alain Resnais and written by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, from the play "Intimate Exchanges" by Alan Ayckbourn. The movie starred Pierre Arditi and Sabine Azéma.

It won the César Award for Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Writing.

Plot

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the movie which are based on closely connected plays. The original plays covered eight separate stories, which have been pared down to three each for these movies. At a certain point in the story of each segment, the five female characters (all played by Sabine Azema) and the four male characters (all played by Pierre Arditi) have their lives skillfully recapped in terms of "what might have happened" if they had made or failed to make certain choices. For example, "No Smoking" focuses chiefly on the relationship between the mild-mannered Miles Coombes and his infinitely more aggressive and ambitious wife, Rowena.

The narrator is voiced by Peter Hudson.

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