Country: France
Year: 2022
Duration: 80'
After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers – known as the Tobacco Force – is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion. Their sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth...
Biography
film director
Quentin Dupieux
(Paris, France, 1974), better known as Mr Oizo, is a world-famous DJ and producer, known for his hit Flat Beat, which originated from his collaboration with Levi’s, for which he shot a series of popular ads in 1999. He debuted as a director with the medium-length movie Nonfilm (2002), which revealed his particular taste for the absurd and the nonsense that also characterized his next movies, Steak (2007) and above all Rubber (2010), presented at the Semaine de la critique in Cannes. His feature film Wrong (2012) participated at the 2012 Torino Film Festival. One of the most appreciated comic directors, his films premiered in Cannes (Le Daim, 2019, Fumer fait tousser, 2022), Venezia (Mandibules, 2020), and Berlin (Incroyable mais vrai, 2022).
FILMOGRAFIA
Nonfilm (mm, 2012), Steak (2007), Rubber (2012), Wrong (2012), Wrong Cops (2013), Réalité (2014), Au poste! (2018), Le Daim (Doppia pelle, 2019), Mandibules (id, 2020), Incroyable mais vrai (2022), Fumer fait tousser (2022), Yannick (2023).
Declaration
film director
"Writing a comedy full of references to the past (Power Rangers, Creepshow, San Ku Kai, Halloween…) with the sole and noble intention of entertaining in these gray times, I didn't expect to find so much substance, nor so much truth… Behind the air of farce and parody, Fumer fait tousser is my closest connection to the real world – and I am the first to be surprised by it. Without any real will, the era we are living in and its most dramatic issues appeared between the dialogues, as if I could no longer pretend to ignore the crisis our planet is going through; as if today it is impossible to make films that do not reflect what humanity is going through. Fortunately, Fumer fait tousser is actually also follows its nature of irrelevant entertainment, without imposing a discourse or a moral. Anyone who wants to forget their worries and just enjoy themselves will probably see nothing but fire. And more precisely, the fire of a cigarette."
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR, SCREENPLAY, CINEMATOGRAPHY, FILM EDITING: Quentin Dupieux. PRODUCTION DESIGN: Joan Le Boru. COSTUME DESIGN: Justine Pearce. SOUND: Guillaume Le Braz, Alexis Place, Gadou Naudin, Jean-Paul Hurier. CAST: Gilles Lellouche, Vincent Lacoste, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, David Marsais, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Grégoire Ludig, Doria Tillier, Jérôme Niel, Blanche Gardin, Benoît Poelvoorde, Alain Chabat. PRODUCER: Hugo Sélignac. PRODUCTION: Gaumont.
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