a review of 烟

The first time I saw Smoke was in an Amsterdam movie theatre when it was released in 1995, so I remembered almost nothing anymore when I decided to rewatch it in 2018. Smoke turned out to be a pleasant flashback to the 1990s. The film managed to almost make me miss the time that people smoked freely all around me. Harvey Keitel delivers a solid performance as Auggie, the owner of a small tobacco store in Brooklyn, welcoming a host of interesting visitors. In my humble opinion, William Hurt delivers the finest performance in Smoke, portraying a writer who's lost in life because of a traumatic experience. His character feels so real that you forget you're watching an actor.