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First Look: Romance and Cigarettes
Release Date: August 19, 2005
Distributor: MGM/UA
Film Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: United States
Director: John Turturro
Cast: James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet,
Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker, Christopher Walken, Aida Turturro, Bobby
Cannavale
Synopsis:
Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the
world of the working class. Nick (Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds
and repairs bridges. He’s married to Kitty (Sarandon), a dressmaker,
a strong and gentle woman with whom he has three daughters. He is carrying
on a torrid affair with a redheaded woman named Tula (Winslet). Nick is
basically a good, hardworking man driven forward by will and blinded by
his urges. Like Oedipus at Colonus, he is sent into exile and searches
to find his way back through the damage he has done. In an imaginative,
humorous, and touching way, Romance and Cigarettes explores the cost and
value of a relationship through life and death. When the characters can
no longer express themselves with language, they break into song, lip-synching
the tunes lodged in their subconscious. It is their way to escape the
harsh reality of their world – to dream, to remember, and to connect
to another human being.
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