La cigarette (1919) YTS - Download Yify Movie

Reviewed by Nick M 5 / 10

An aging Eqyptologist acquires a mummy of a

An aging Eqyptologist acquires a mummy of a princess for his museum with an interesting story. Her husband was an older man who discovered that his younger wife was having an affair. Knowing that his advanced age made it highly unlikely that he could win her back or find a new romance, he opted to kill himself in an unusual way. He had his cook bake a number of preservable cakes, and somehow had poison slipped into one of them. He would eat them periodically, and knew that eventually he would come to the one containing the poison. This way he was assured of dying, but would never be certain when his death would come. The Egyptologist himself is married to a much younger wife, and he worries that he has found himself in a similar position. He injects poison into one of his cigarettes to mimic the methods of this Egyptian prince he so romanticizes. There is a good story here, but this film could have presented it with more polish. It's isn't bad, but I found it to be too laden with unnecessary intertitles, and the moral isn't developed enough to become fully realized. At the end the husband doesn't really seem to have learned anything. It isn't as satisfying as it might otherwise have been if the theme had been explored more fully.

Reviewed by Hitchcoc 6 / 10

An Artifact

This film is only watched because the woman who directed it went on to greater things. The print is terrible, with dramatic dropouts (probably beyond repair). It tells the story of a fifty something museum curator who has married a pretty young woman. She is affectionate and loving (and we would say he is a lucky man). She is also full of life and he is terribly stuffy and directs his energy toward mummies and old things. When she takes a bit of a shine to a younger man, he becomes jealous. There is nothing to it, but the old guy is so jealous that he decides to kill himself and release her from their marriage. He decides to poison some cigarettes (how is that for weird?) and slink into oblivion. I won't spoil things by revealing the ending. Watch this only if you are a bit of a film buff because of the horrible quality of the film.

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La cigarette

1919 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama

La cigarette

1919 [FRENCH]

Action / Drama

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An aging Eqyptologist acquires a mummy of a

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