Distributor: | DeAPlaneta |
Cinematography: | Cobi Migliora |
Editing: | David Gallardo |
Country: | Spain |
Language: | Spanish |
Smoking Room is a 2002 Spanish film written and directed by Julio D. Wallovits and Roger Gual.
The plot concerns the miseries and intrigues unravelling among the employees of a company ensuing with the decision taken by one of them (Ramírez) to file a request for the creation of a smoking room in the office.
The film was produced by El Sindicato alongside and DeAPlaneta.[1]
The film screened at the Málaga Film Festival.[2] Distributed by DeAPlaneta, it was theatrically released in Spain on 14 June 2002.
Mirito Torreiro of Fotogramas rated the film 4 out of 5 stars, extolling the dialogues, "the best ones heard in a Spanish film for many years".[3]
Jonathan Holland of Variety presented Smoking Room as a "low-budget, high-talent debut" that is "a witty X-ray of male office workers living their lives in quiet (and not so quiet) desperation".[4]
|-| rowspan = "4" align = "center" | 2002 || rowspan = "3" | 5th Málaga Film Festival || Best Screenplay || || || rowspan = "3" | [5] |-| Best Male Performance || The entire (male) cast || |-| colspan = "2" | Jury's Special Prize || |-| 15th European Film Awards || colspan = "2" | European Discovery of the Year || || |-| align = "center" rowspan = "2" | 2003 || rowspan = "2" | 17th Goya Awards || Best New Director || Julio Wallovits, Roger Gual || || rowspan = "2" | [6] |-| Best Original Screenplay || Julio Wallovits, Roger Gual || |}