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the audience applauded

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Just what I expected

A different way of telling a story

This is one of the few films that I have been unable to watch in it's entirety. A musical where nobody can sing and volume makes way for talent.A great cast is woeful and embarrassing in this indulgent car crash of a movie.Speaking of which "Thelma and Louise" star Susan Saradon is given a none too flattering close up what seems like every 10 seconds. Enough to make you drive off a cliff. It does for her career what "Abba" did for Meryl Streep.The dialogue is not witty but crass and puerile. Everything in this film appears to be borrowed and stale .If nothing else it just is discordant and irritating. Good songs are mutilated instead of celebrated in they are in,"The Blues Brothers".The film is so desperate to be hip and cool that it is quite the reverse. It is a nerd of a movie. Other than that I completely hated it.

This film is about a wife who discovers that his husband has a mistress. She sets out to find her."Romance & Cigarettes" is not a comedy and is not a musical. It is just a confusing mess. The plot is all over the place, and the story telling is abysmally poor that most subplots are poorly explained and poorly connected to each other. The so called musical part involves actors miming to old songs that are clearly not written especially for this film. The dances accompanying the music lack vibrancy and energy to set the screen alight. The street fight scene is so over the top. The constant screaming is so noisy and hysterical.There are a few notably beautiful scenes, such as Kate Winslet singing underwater, but the scene is so out of place in the first place. Would someone who is thrown into the water sing gracefully under water?

"Romance and Cigarettes" is an outrageous musical about the working class. It takes some getting used to, but it's well worth it, thanks to all of the talent in front of the camera and behind the scenes. It's risky, it's off the wall, it's bold, and at times, it's a riot. And you can't beat the soundtrack or the dancing policemen.James Gandolfini plays Nick Murder (who else), a cheating husband married to Susan Sarandon and involved with the nearly unrecognizable Kate Winslet, a red-headed slut. They have three daughters: Constance (Mary-Louise Parker), Rosebud (Aida Turturro, Gandolfini's sister in the Sopranos; Turturro is one year younger than Gandolfini and Mary-Louise Parker is three years younger), and Baby (Mandy Moore), who have their own romance problems. The cast also includes Steve Buscemi, Bobby Carnavale, Eddie Izzard, and Christopher Walken. The characters all break into song with no notice, and the music includes "Piece of My Heart," "This is a Man's World," "Delilah," "Trouble," and many others.The film chronicles the choice Nick Murder must make as he grapples with his life.Very quirky and not for everyone, but some really marvelous performances, great music, and both fun and poignant moments.

It's the tenth time I see this film. And no matter what I was during these home screenings, drunk, sober, happy or sad, I still have the same stupid smile on my face when the credits start rolling. It's not that the ending makes me laugh, there's nothing funny about it. But neither does it make me sprout tears all over the place. I can't really describe this subtle feeling, the same feeling I have after watching Burton's "Big Fish".Yes, I can endlessly praise the music choices and the fine cast/acting etc. But that's all "body parts". This is, I won't be afraid to use the word, a complete and finished work of art. Yeah, the story's cheesy but it's one of the only films of our time that gives this every-day-life type of thing the authenticity that Turturro provides. It's one of the only films of our time that lives up to Piccaso's words "Art is the tool that brushes away the dust from our day-to-day life".I'm not in possession of words to express my gratitude so I'm not going to try to color it. Mr. Turturro, you're the man. Thank you so much.