Ted Todorov
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But last night, as I watched the French film, My Wife is an Actress, tobacco use in movies hit a new low.Mario,
I take it that you haven't been to France recently -- or any other European country for that matter. People there smoke at a incomparably higher rate than the US, and smoking is treated utterly differently.
You also don't seem to understand that this film is a playoff on reality: Charlotte Gainsbourgh is playing herself, and Yvan Attal is playing a fictionalized version of himself with his real life sister playing his movie sister.
All these people smoke in real life. Serge Gainsbourg, Charlotte's father, a pop star (also a director and actor) was a chain smoker, NEVER seen performing, on TV or otherwise, without a cigarette in his mouth. Notoriously he was smoking two cigarettes at once at the Cesar Awards (the French Oscars) when he was on stage, presenting an award for which his daughter was one of the nominees.
Any film depicting that family as non-smokers would be the most ridiculous white-wash in film history.
I can believe we have gotten to the point where any on screen depiction of REALITY is deemed offensive.
Ted (a life long non-smoker)
P.S. As a NYC resident (who admittedly goes to parties slightly down-market from the Sex and the City ideal) I can assure you, that most people at NYC parties (or bars) smoke. When I come home after a party my hair and all my clothing reeks of cigarette smoke.