2007 · surreal · thriller · drama
No Smoking
Directed by Anurag Kashyap2h 6m2007
A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit.
Our read: No Smoking (2007) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal surreal · thriller · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, kinetic, measured surreal / thriller, surreal in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- surreal
- bleak
- cold
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