Archive of films Smoking Causes Coughing / Fumer fait tousser

France
2022, 77 min

Section: Midnight Screenings
Year: 2022

What is this film about? About superheroes who resemble the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers but call themselves the Tobacco Force and kill extraterrestrial monsters using nicotine? Or is it about the scary stories they tell each other by the campfire when their boss, the perpetually drooling rat Didier, sends them on a vacation in the woods? Hard to say. King of twisted ideas Quentin Dupieux returns with an (anti-)smoking comedy about saving the world.


Synopsis

What's this film about? A group of superheroes who uncannily resemble the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers many of us will remember from the TV. They are called the Tobacco Force, and they kill supernatural monsters from the cosmos using nicotine and carbon monoxide although, good role models that they are, they never touch cigarettes themselves. Since they are burnt out from saving the world, their boss – the perpetually drooling rat Didier – tells them to go and relax in the woods. By the campfire they try to frighten each other with scary stories. Is this what the film is about? Quentin Dupieux, king of ideas that transcend our ordinary experience of reality, presents a tale about the difficulties of being a superhero, grilled barracuda, and the operator of an agricultural threshing machine.

Anna Kořínek

About the director

Quentin Dupieux

Quentin Dupieux (1974, Paris). Selected filmography: Rubber (2010), Wrong (2012), Reality (Réalité, 2014), Deerskin (Le daim,  2019), Mandibles (Mandibules, 2020), Smoking Causes Coughing (Fumer fait tousser, 2022).

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About the film

Color, DCP

Section: Midnight Screenings
   
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Screenplay: Quentin Dupieux
Dir. of Photography: Quentin Dupieux
Music: Quentin Dupieux
Sound: Guillaume Le Braz
Editor: Quentin Dupieux
Art Director: Joan Le Boru
Producer: Hugo Sélignac
Production: Chi-Fou-Mi Productions
Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra
Sales: Gaumont
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