Romance & Cigarettes

**Champion of Europa** · 08-03-2005, 12:41 AM

I was looking at stuff about upcoming movies, and this movie caught my attention. It's written and directed by John Tutturo. It has James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken in it.

Plot: Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty (Susan 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 (Kate 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.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368222/

I don't dig musicals, but it's Tutturo and all those other great people.

08-03-2005, 12:41 AM	#1
Champion of Europa SEX APPEAL Posts: 13,830	Romance & Cigarettes I was looking at stuff about upcoming movies, and this movie caught my attention. It's written and directed by John Tutturo. It has James Gandolfini, Kate Winslet, Steve Buscemi, and Christopher Walken in it. Plot: Romance and Cigarettes is a down-and-dirty musical love story set in the world of the working class. Nick (James Gandolfini) is an ironworker who builds and repairs bridges. He's married to Kitty (Susan 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 (Kate 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. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368222/ I don't dig musicals, but it's Tutturo and all those other great people.