Extremely prolific, Quentin Dupieux has just presented “Smoking makes you cough” at the Cannes Film Festival. A comedy in which a team of superheroes takes a little break after defeating a formidable enemy. However, their week off is not going to go as planned…
Smoking makes you cough : The Toxic Avengers
With Smoking makes you coughpresented in a midnight session at 75and Cannes Film Festival, Quentin Dupieux ventures again into the fantastic register, in his own way. In mandibles, Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais discover a gigantic fly in the trunk of a car and try to domesticate it. In Incredible but trueAlain Chabat and Léa Drucker move into a house where something strange is happening in the basement.
Smoking makes you cough presents a team of superheroes led by Benzene, played by Gilles Lellouche, who wears for the occasion the white locks and the goatee of Doctor Strange. With its partners Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi) and Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), they form the “Tabac Force”a team of vigilantes who are responsible for eliminating scoundrels by intoxicating them.
When their superior, chef Didier (Alain Chabat), offers them a one-week retreat in a quiet corner, the “Tabac Force” rejoice. Their rest period is nevertheless disturbed by the terrible Lézardin (Benoît Poelvoorde), who plans to destroy the Earth.
Quentin Dupieux brings together beautiful people
Making fun of the attitudes of the big Hollywood machines and parodying Japanese superhero imagery, Smoking makes you cough does not stop there and offers sketches which interrupt the holidays of the “Tabac Force”. To spice up their stay, the vigilantes decide to tell each other terrifying stories.
The opportunity to find Doria Tillier who completely cracks during a weekend, no longer supporting her companion Jérôme Niel as well as her friends Adèle Exarchopoulos and Grégoire Ludig. Special mention to the segment with Blanche Gardin and Anthony Sonigoon which it is better not to reveal anything and which is probably one of the funniest sequences staged by Quentin Dupieux in recent times.
Fans of the filmmaker therefore have reason to rejoice with this crazy new project and should not shy away from their pleasure in front of the appearances of chef Didier, a sort of completely ramshackle and libidinous master Splinter, who manages to seduce all his interlocutors despite the hectoliters of drool he continually releases.
Smoking makes you cough does not yet have a French release date.
