Smoke

(1995)

★ 7.2 IMDb · 549 votes

Genres: Comedy, Drama

Year: 1995

Runtime: 112 мин

Country: Germany, Japan

Director: Ван Ин

Cast: Харви Кейтель, Уильям Хёрт, Стокард Чэннинг, Гарольд Перрино, Форест Уитакер, Джанкарло Эспозито, Хосе Суньига, Stephen Gevedon, Джаред Харрис, Эшли Джадд

Plot

Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.

The plot of this movie, like smoke, drifts and swirls ethereally. Characters and subplots are deftly woven into a tapestry of stories and pictures which only slowly emerges to our view. This movie tries to convince us that reality doesn't matter so much as aesthetic satisfaction. In Auggie Wren's (Harvey Keitel's) New York City smoke shop, day by day passes, seemingly unchanging until he teaches us to notice the little details of life. Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a disheartened and broken writer, has a brush with death that is pivotal and sets up an unlikely series of events that afford him a novel glimpse into the life on the street which he saw, but did not truly perceive, every day. Finally, it's Auggie's turn to spin a tale.