smoking causes cough
Score: 4
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Cast: Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi
Year: 2022
Premiere: September 8, 2023
Although it initially looks like it’s directed by a group of superheroes battling ‘kaiju’ monsters thanks to the toxic chemicals in cigarettes, Quentin Dupieux’s tenth film is a compilation of short stories that mostly contain kaiju. atrocities and ‘bloody’ events Something that the aseptic aesthetic of Canadian cinema and the relaxed and cautious demeanor as a whole work. Looks like an episode of ‘Monty Python’s Flying Circus’.
Images include a barracuda that tells stories as it cooks, a thinking helmet that instills murderous urges in its wearer, a refrigerator with a supermarket inside, an alien supervillain, and a person keeping his cool while being manipulated by a machine. meat.
For those looking to find double readings, the phrase ‘Smoking causes coughing’ is taken as an indication of the focus of our obsessive consumption of fiction. violence, revenge and murder just as unhealthy tobacco addiction but in reality – and as with most previous feature films – nothing in the film shows Dupieux’s intention to do more than show his good hand. black comedy and its finely tuned sense of nonsense they remain intact. In this sense, we are faced with a great success.