BLUE IN THE FACE
October 13, 1995
Directed by Paul Auster & Wayne Wang
Madonna as Singing Telegram Girl
Just a normal day in Brooklyn
NORMAL ?!!!
This is New York man…
Blue in the Face (1995), Wayne Wang and Paul Auster’s free-wheeling companion to Smoke, unfolds in a Brooklyn cigar shop where colorful locals wander through. Among the cameos, Madonna appears as a brash singing telegram girl, injecting a flash of absurd comedy.
While reviews were mixed on the film’s improvisational style, The New York Times praised the cameos for keeping the energy lively, calling them “playful surprises that add to the film’s eccentric charm.”
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- Magazine Clipping, 1996 (Germany)
BLUE IN THE FACE
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 humour, 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.
Most of all, this is a movie about living life, off-the-cuff
