"Romance & Cigarettes, like One from the Heart, is an interiorized musical set somewhere between stark lower middle-class reality and all-consuming artifice," writes Michael Koresky at indieWIRE. "[A]lso like that film, it's not entirely successful in its aims, often poking around rather than rooting to its characters' emotional core. Yet the labor of [John] Turturro's love is evident in nearly every frame."

"More than two years after its original intended North American release date, this bawdy, ambitious musical has finally wended its way to a single screen." Franz Lidz tells quite a tale in the New York Times. "At times I've felt like jumping out a window," Turturro tells him. "A paean to the twin pleasures of lust and tobacco, Romance & Cigarettes is an ensemble piece that centers on a construction worker (James Gandolfini) caught between his wife (Susan Sarandon) and his mistress (Kate Winslet), a salty seductress with curves of Titanic proportions."

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