Cigarettes in scope

Can we imagine Humphrey Bogart's face as anything other than drowned in a cloud of smoke? Groucho Marx without his cigar? Jacques Tati without his pipe? Audrey Hepburn without her cigarette holder? Breathless Belmondo without his cigarette butt stuck to the corner of the lips? Sharon Stone uncrossing her legs in Basic Instinct without throwing, provoking, the smoke of his cigarette towards Michael Douglas ? Or Clint Eastwood without a cigarillo clenched between his teeth in the Sergio Leone westerns? A few images, between dozens and dozens others, which remain engraved in our memories and forever associated with this or that such a movie. Since the birth of the 7th art, tobacco has long been omnipresent on screens, as if the cigarette, cigar or pipe were necessary for the star so that it takes on its full dimension. Tobacco sublimated the star and the star transformed tobacco into an adornment – ​​that of the cop in hiding, of the prostitute planted on the sidewalk, the insomniac night watchman or the intellectual lacking inspiration. Asking for a light, offering a cigarette, it was already write a script… Adrien Gombeaud, film critic, unfolds his epic on the big screen at through more than one hundred and fifty films, of which he evokes a number of scenes which have become mythical in which tobacco is a full-fledged player.