Romance and Cigarettes(2007)- User Reviews

A Candidate for "10 Best List"

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"Romance and Cigarettes" was so much fun I hated for it to end. I even went back and watched a few scenes again.
It's the first American movie I've seen that I would use the word farsical to describe. It has a fantastic cast (Gandolfini, Sarandon. Buscemi, Walken, et al) and has among the absolutely best written dialogue of any movie I've seen.
It tends to be a little obsessive about sex in the early going, but not in any sophomoric way. It turns out to be a wonderful love story. Though it's billed as a musical (and there is a fair amount of perfectly selected music in it), I think that's a misnomer. It is a great essay about our insecurities and the ways that we deceive/delude ourselves.