Smoking/No Smoking

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Smoking/No Smoking

Directed by Alain Resnais
Produced by Bruno Pésery
Michel Seydoux
Written by Agnès Jaoui
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Narrated by Peter Hudson
Starring Pierre Arditi
Sabine Azéma
Music by John Pattison
Cinematography Renato Berta
Editing by Albert Jurgenson
Release dates
  • 15 December 1993 (1993-12-15)
Running time 298 minutes
Country France
Language French

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 Exchanges by Alan 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

"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 narrator is voiced by Peter Hudson.

Cast

  • Sabine Azéma as Celia Teasdale / Sylvie Bell / Irene Pridworthy / Rowena Coombes / Josephine Hamilton
  • Pierre Arditi as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick

Awards and nominations

  • Berlin Film Festival (Germany)
    • Won: Silver Bear – Outstanding Single Achievement (Alain Resnais)[1]
    • Nominated: Golden Bear
  • César Awards (France)
    • Won: Best Actor – Leading Role (Pierre Arditi)
    • Won: Best Director (Alain Resnais)
    • Won: Best Film
    • Won: Best Production Design (Jacques Saulnier)
    • Won: Best Writing (Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui)
    • Nominated: Best Actress – Leading Role (Sabine Azéma)
    • Nominated: Best Cinematography (Renato Berta)
    • Nominated: Best Editing (Albert Jurgenson)
    • Nominated: Best Sound (Bernard Bats and Gérard Lamps)
  • French Syndicate of Cinema Critics (France)
    • Won: Best Film

References

  1. ↑ "Berlinale: 1994 Prize Winners". berlinale.de. Retrieved 2011-12-29. 

External links

Films directed by Alain Resnais
Feature films
  • Hiroshima mon amour (1959)
  • Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
  • Muriel (1963)
  • The War Is Over (1966)
  • Je t'aime, je t'aime (1968)
  • Stavisky (1974)
  • Providence (1977)
  • Mon oncle d'Amérique (1980)
  • Life Is a Bed of Roses (1983)
  • L'Amour à mort (1984)
  • Mélo (1986)
  • I Want to Go Home (1989)
  • Gershwin (TV) (1992)
  • Smoking/No Smoking (1993)
  • Same Old Song (1997)
  • Not on the Lips (2003)
  • Private Fears in Public Places (2006)
  • Wild Grass (2009)
  • You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet! (2012)
  • Life of Riley (2014)
Short films
  • L'Aventure de Guy
  • Schéma d'une identification
  • Ouvert pour cause d'inventaire
  • Visite à Oscar Dominguez
  • Visite à Lucien Coutaud
  • Visite à Hans Hartung
  • Visite à Félix Labisse
  • Visite à César Doméla
  • Van Gogh (1947)
  • Portrait d'Henri Goetz
  • Le Lait Nestlé
  • L'Alcool tue
  • La Bague
  • Journée naturelle
  • Van Gogh (1948)
  • Malfray
  • Les Jardins de Paris
  • Châteaux de France
  • Guernica
  • Gauguin
  • Pictura: An Adventure in Art (Gauguin segment)
  • Statues Also Die
  • Night and Fog
  • Toute la mémoire du monde
  • Le Mystère de l'atelier quinze
  • Le Chant du styrène
  • Segment "Claude Ridder" in Far from Vietnam
  • Segment "Wall Street" in L'An 01
César Award for Best Film
1976-1999
  • Le vieux fusil (1976)
  • Monsieur Klein (1977)
  • Providence (1978)
  • L'argent des autres (1979)
  • Tess (1980)
  • The Last Metro (1981)
  • Quest for Fire (1982)
  • La Balance (1983)
  • Le Bal and À Nos Amours (1984, tie)
  • My New Partner (1985)
  • Three Men and a Cradle (1986)
  • Thérèse (1987)
  • Au revoir les enfants (1988)
  • Camille Claudel (1989)
  • Too Beautiful for You (1990)
  • Cyrano de Bergerac (1991)
  • Tous les Matins du Monde (1992)
  • Savage Nights (1993)
  • Smoking/No Smoking (1994)
  • Wild Reeds (1995)
  • La Haine (1996)
  • Ridicule (1997)
  • Same Old Song (1998)
  • The Dreamlife of Angels (1999)
2000-2019
  • Venus Beauty Institute (2000)
  • The Taste of Others (2001)
  • Amélie (2002)
  • The Pianist (2003)
  • The Barbarian Invasions (2004)
  • Games of Love and Chance (2005)
  • The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2006)
  • Lady Chatterley (2007)
  • The Secret of the Grain (2008)
  • Séraphine (2009)
  • A Prophet (2010)
  • Of Gods and Men (2011)
  • The Artist (2012)
  • Amour (2013)
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