Time Smoking a Picture (1980): cast, story & where to watch
1980 · Film · ★ 9
Released in 1980, Time Smoking a Picture is a notable film directed by Thierry Kuntzel, running about 38 minutes.
What it’s about. In Time Smoking a Picture, simple gestures and images — a figure smoking a cigarette, a frame within a frame — unfold in time as elusive manifestations of reality and representation, transformed by barely perceptible variations of shifting color and passages of light. Raymond Bellour has written of Kuntzel's achievement in "representing the unrepresentable: the spatial or temporal in-between created by the disjunction/conjunction between mental representation and perception, surface and depth... past and present, conscious and unconscious. As the hero — the author and original spectator — establishes his presence, crossing the room in both frames at once, we are given the outline of what representation holds out to fiction: the hero's gaze into the window, where he can see his life slipping past, inside and outside."
How it landed. With an audience score of 9.0/10, Time Smoking a Picture sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.
Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Time Smoking a Picture page.
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- Where can I watch Time Smoking a Picture (1980)?
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- Is Time Smoking a Picture worth watching?
- Time Smoking a Picture holds an audience score of 9.0 out of 10. Most viewers rate it highly.
- When was Time Smoking a Picture released?
- Time Smoking a Picture was released in 1980, with a runtime of about 38 minutes.