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FRANCE · 1993

No Smoking

Alain Resnais
French New Wave alternate reality cigarette smoking counterfactual thinking role-playing life choices
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Synopsis

Two actors play eighteen different roles in a story that asks the question: would my life have been different if I hadn't lit a cigarette?

Year1993
CountryFrance
DirectorAlain Resnais
MovementFrench New Wave
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