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The Cigarette

1919 · 51 min

A slow, quiet plunge into jealousy and fatalism, where every glance and object carries the weight of impending doom.

Overview
A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • bleakstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • obsession
  • betrayal
  • fate
  • guilt
  • death
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
period
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror2
Humour1
Realism6
Romance3
Tension7
Darkness7
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Germaine Dulac
Written by
Jacques de Baroncelli
Starring
Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Raucourt, Genevieve Williams
Cinematography
Louis Chaix
Runtime
51 min
Country
France
Languages
No Language

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