After a passage noticed by the last Cannes Film Festival, where it ignited the Séance de Minuit, “Smoking makes you cough” is revealed thanks to a trailer which leaves the mystery hovering. While waiting for its release, November 30 at the cinema.
Quentin Dupieux’s films follow each other but are not alike. Apart from the ease with which their author handles the absurd. Expected on November 30 in our theaters, Smoking makes you cough will thus be the third of his feature films to be released in less than two years. Thanks to his speed in linking projects but also because of the Covid crisis, which postponed the releases of Mandibles then Incredible but true.
Passed by the last Cannes Film Festival, to which it offered a memorable Midnight Screening, the tenth feature film by the musical artist known as Mr. Oizo is unveiled with a trailer that sets the tone. But keep a good deal of mystery about the story.
We follow a group of superheroes, the Tabac Force, who look like a cross between The Fantastic 4 (if there were five) and the Bioman of our childhood. Incarnated by Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Vincent Lacoste, Jean-Pascal Zadi and Oulaya Amamra, the latter will however not have to save the world. Because their superior, a rat who speaks with the voice of Alain Chabat, sends them to go green to strengthen the cohesion of the group.
How do the characters played by Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blanche Gardin and Doria Tillier, who we see in these images, fit into the story? As usual, Quentin Dupieux keeps most of his cards up his sleeve, and the trailer retains a good deal of mystery.
Smoking makes you cough will thus be more likely to surprise the spectators who will go see it from November 30, in the same way as those who had discovered it on the Croisette, last May, knew absolutely nothing about it apart from a photo of Tabac Force. And the XXL casting list, which also includes Benoît Poelvoorde or Anthony Sonigo, friend of Vincent Lacoste in Les Beaux gosses.
When Alain Chabat and Quentin Dupieux comment on absurd scenes from their careers: