Smoking/No Smoking (film)

See also: Smoking/No Smoking

Smoking/No Smoking is a French film in two parts, exploited separately in rooms, carried out by Alain Resnais in 1993, and adapted homonymous part of the British playwright Alan Ayckbourn.

It obtains the Prix Louis-Delluc in 1993 and the César of the best film in 1994

Synopsis

The history presents a series of characters in a small village of Yorkshire interpreted by two actors (Sabine Azema and Pierre Arditi) who will propose to us several poured of their life. The incidences of our lifestyle choices there are found, since in one the character decides to stop smoking and in the other not.

Comments

At the same time exercise of rigorous style in its construction and imagination, these two films joined together are a typical example of “multiple film” of Resnais proposing in each one six different ends at a common beginning. The origin of the title lies in the choice which a character at the beginning of the histoire  makes;: to smoke a cigarette or not (in Smoking ) (in No Smoking ).

The decorations are voluntarily nonrealistic, to point out the theatrical origin of the scenario, and are always located outside, but are turned in studio. It is a reflection on the destiny, the place of the chance, but also on the uselessness of the regrets, through characters ordinary, but typified, of the mild nutter to the disaster, while passing by the reasonable one. The 5 female characters are played by Sabine Azéma and the 4 masculines by Pierre Arditi, the supporting characters are evoked, heard even, but ever seen. The make-up and the accessories are all the more supported that the character moves away from the standard.

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Distinctions

  • 1993 : Price Louis-Delluc
  • 1994: Money bear to the Berlinale
  • 1994: the film obtains 5 césars (César of best film, of the best actor for Pierre Arditi, the best realizer for Alain Resnais, the best decorations for Jacques Saulnier, and of the best adaptation for Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri)

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