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Blue in the Face

1995

Wayne Wang, Paul Auster ...

Harvey Keitel, Victor Argo, Giancarlo Esposito, Mira Sorvino ...

6.7

2,673

Comedy Wayne Wang's follow-up movie to Smoke presents a series of improvisational situations strung together to form a pastiche of Brooklyn's diverse ethnicity, offbeat humor, and essential humanity. Many of the same characters inhabiting Auggie Wren's Brooklyn Cigar Store in Smoke return here to expound on their philosophy of smoking, relationships, baseball, New York, and Belgian Waffles.

	Author	Review
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"An unpredictable, occasionally amusing, wildly uneven portrait of a neighborhood struggling to hold on to its identity."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"[It has] an easygoing, copacetic mood and a playfulness in which the audience can take part (...) Harvey Keitel once again makes a fine master of ceremonies"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"'Smoke' is, of course, a much better film, and if you haven't seen it, then you should start there and not here. 'Blue in the Face' is more of a footnote (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"As with 'Smoke', Wang and Auster have succeeded in creating the sort of off-the-cuff homage to the Big Apple that comes along all too rarely (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Marc Savlov Austin Chronicle	"As a slice of Brooklyn summertime life, 'Blue in the Face' never quite hits the highs of Spike Lee's best work. It seems cobbled together and ephemeral, and, of course, it is (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU

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