THEME EXPLORATION

cigarette smoking

5 films · 2 directors

Tracing the thread…

FILMS THAT EXPLORE THIS
No Smoking
No Smoking
1993 · Alain Resnais
His Wife’s Mother
His Wife’s Mother
1909 · D.W. Griffith
Luca il contrabbandiere
Luca il contrabbandiere
1980 · Lucio Fulci
Un Peu de feu S.V.P.
Un Peu de feu S.V.P.
1904 · Georges Méliès
No Smoking
No Smoking
1951 · Jack Kinney
DIRECTORS WHO EXPLORE THIS
Wong Kar-wai Hong Kong

His films use cigarette smoking as a visual and symbolic language for existential longing, urban alienation, and romantic melancholy.

 David Lynch United States

He employs cigarette smoking as a recurring motif to evoke psychological tension, noir atmosphere, and the murky underbelly of American life.