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3 Production  





4 Awards and nominations  





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Smoking/No Smoking






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Smoking/No Smoking
Directed byAlain Resnais
Written byAgnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Produced byBruno Pésery
Michel Seydoux
StarringPierre Arditi
Sabine Azéma
Narrated byPeter Hudson
CinematographyRenato Berta
Edited byAlbert Jurgenson
Music byJohn Pattison
Distributed byPyramide Distribution

Release date

  • 15 December 1993 (1993-12-15)

Running time

298 minutes
CountryFrance
LanguageFrench

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

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

Plot[edit]

"Smoking" and "No Smoking" are two segments of the film 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 movie is set in the village of Hutton Buscel.

The narrator is voiced by Peter Hudson.

Cast[edit]

Production[edit]

Principal photography began from 5 October 1992 to 22 February 1993. [1]

Awards and nominations[edit]

References[edit]

  • ^ "Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
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