Wayne Wang and Paul Auster, United States, 1995

Film series 'El Placer de fumar: Adicción y negocio' (The Pleasure of Smoking: addiction and business

Smoke

Presented by Francisco Jesús Bueno Cañigral, doctor in Medicine and Surgery ( Consellería de Sanitat I Consum, City Council of Valencia), and Miquel Tello, member of the Cinema Club of the University of Valencia.

Synopsis:

The first cinematographic adventure of Paul Auster, who places the story in the summer of 1987 in the neighborhood of Brooklyn (NY). A group of people frequent the tobacconist of their neighborhood. Auggie Wren (Harvey Keitel), the tobacco dealer, is the confidant, of all of them. The incredible story of how he got his camera and why he decided to develop his special collection of pictures, the same frame of the front house during 14 years, will finally give an argument to Paul Benjamin (William Hurt), a prestigious writer in crisis. The vital circle closes when these human contacts involve Auggie in a way that force him to take responsibility respect Ruby (Stockard Channing), an old girlfriend with who he has a daughter (Ashley Judd), who now a teenager, goes through a very difficult time.