Romance & Cigarettes Reviews

Since it was one of the last movies with Kate Winslet which I hadn't seen yet, I was really eager to check this flick. Furthermore, there was a really impressive cast involved (James Gandolfini, Susan Sarandon, Steve Buscemi, Mandy Moore, Mary-Louise Parker and Christopher Walken) so I had some rather high expectations concerning the damned thing, even if I'm not a big fan of musicals. Well, to be honest, the whole thing turned out to be a huge disappointment, I’m afraid. Eventually, the main issue I had was above all with the story but the characters were not really interesting either. Eventually, I was just really bored by the whole thing. At first, I was really hoping that it would get better at some point but even Christopher Walken in his awesomeness couldn't make it more entertaining. Apparently, Roger Ebert really loved the damned thing so maybe it is matter of taste but I just couldn’t care at all for the damned thing. At least, I have to admit it that the really sexy poster (actually featuring Kate Winslet) was really awesome but it would be probably the only positive thing I could find regarding this movie. To conclude, in spite of the interesting cast, I can't possibly recommend this movie and I don’t think it is really worth a look.

Watched this for the first time yesterday (tho it was on the box for months, just never got round to it) I wish I had sooner-

This was a great movie (but dont know how it will play on a second viewing…)

So whats it all about Shempy…?

Tony Soprano cheats on Susan Sarandon with Kate Winslet… thats pretty much it.

However its a bit of a musical with some underwater Winslet singing (looking stunning) and Christopher Walken and Sarandon dancing as if they were in the rain.

What puzzled me was Soprano and Sarandon had 3 daughters in this movie. One was Mandy Moore, fair enough (the other two were almost the same age as Soprano himself, especially Mary-Louise Parker who was 41 at the time. Not to be swayed by my bungee cord of disbelief being suspended as I didnt mind for my love of Mary-Louise Parker… and her rocking the many hair styles in this movie)

This was written and directed by the sweet lovely John Turturro and from this witty and weird script I’d love to see anything else he’s wrote, and hope he will do more in the future.