Smoking / No Smoking (1993)
"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.
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Sabine Azéma
as Celia Teasdale / Sylvie Bell / Irene Pridworthy / Rowena Coombes / Josephine Hamilton
as Celia Teasdale / Sylvie Bell / Irene Pridworthy / Rowena Coombes / Josephine Hamilton
Pierre Arditi
as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
as Toby Teasdale / Miles Coombes / Lionel Hepplewick / Joe Hepplewick
Peter Hudson
as Narrator
as Narrator
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Crew arrow_drop_down
Michel Seydoux
Associate Choreographer
Associate Choreographer
Bruno Pésery
Executive Producer
Executive Producer
Alain Resnais
Director
Director
John Pattison
Music
Music
Renato Berta
Director of Photography
Director of Photography
Alan Ayckbourn
Theatre Play
Theatre Play
Anne Dutter
Translator
Translator
Agnès Jaoui
Writer
Writer
Jean-Pierre Bacri
Writer
Writer
Michel Seydoux
Associate Producer
Associate Producer
Albert Jurgenson
Editor
Editor
Jackie Budin
Costume Design
Costume Design
Olivier Trémolet
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Daniel Deleforges
Assistant Director
Assistant Director
Jacques Saulnier
Production Design
Production Design
Béatrice Mauduit
Production Assistant
Production Assistant
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