Ayckbourn Films: Smoking / No Smoking (adapted from Intimate Exchanges)

Title: Smoking / No Smoking
Alternative title: N/A
Adapted from: Intimate Exchanges (1982)

World Premiere: 1994
UK Premiere: 16 September 1994

Director: Alain Resnais
Adapted dialogue: Jean-Pierre Bacri & Agnes Jaoui

Cast
Celia Teasdale:
Rowena Coombes:
Sylvie Bell:                Sabine Azema
Irene Pridworthy:
Josephine Hamilton:

Toby Teasdale:
Miles Coombes:          Pierre Arditi
Lionel Hepplewick:
Joe Hepplewick:

Production country: France
Duration: 140 minutes (Smoking) / 145 minutes (No Smoking)
Certificate: 15
UK Distributor: Mainline Pictures

Awards
Cesar Awards, France 1994
Best Actor: Pierre Arditi
Best Director: Alain Resnais
Best Film: Alain Resnais
Best Production Design: Jacques Saulnier
Best Writing - Original or Adaptation: Jean-Pierre Bacri / Agnes Jaoui

Berlin International Film Festival 1994
Silver Berlin Bear: Outstanding Single Achievement - Alain Resnais for the originality

French Syndicate of Cinema Critics 1994
Critics Award - Best Film

Prix Louis Delluc 1993
Prix Louis Delluc - Alain Resnais

DVD
Smoking / No Smoking was released on region 2 three-disc DVD in France in 2005 (French language only / no subtitles).

Notes
Smoking / No Smoking adapted six of Alan Ayckbourn's eight Intimate Exchanges plays into two films.

Images

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