"Cigarette Girl," a sweeping, smoke-filled five-episode melodrama from Indonesia, premiered at the Busan International Film Festival last month and began streaming on Netflix Thursday.
Cigarette Girl is a smoldering Netflix period drama from Indonesia. When we first meet elderly tobacco tycoon Soeraja (Ario Bayu), he is in a hospital bed and seems to be taking a turn for the worse. As monitors beep, he springs up in bed, pulling the breathing tube from his nose and frantically searching for something or someone.