2005 · comedy · music · romance
Romance & Cigarettes
Directed by John Turturro1h 45m2005
Ironworker Nick lives with his wife, Kitty, and three daughters. When he meets a significantly younger woman, Tula, he starts an affair with her, much to the chagrin of his wife, and his life is thrown into upheaval. Kitty kicks Nick out of the house, and he is forced to make some difficult decisions.
Our read: Romance & Cigarettes (2005) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · music · romance entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- warm
- brisk
- inventive
- intimate
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