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Join Telegram ChannelQuentin Dupieux transposes Bioman to France but parasitizes the parody with absurd horror stories. A sketch film that is as short as it is fun.
When The Second Acthis biggest success in theaters, arrives on DVD and blu-ray (but without bonuses, the director having expressed the wish to “to be silent” to better let his film speak), TMC rebroadcasts Smoking makes you coughof Quentin Dupieuxon this Thursday evening. Is it worth a look? Here is our review.
Never where you expect him, Quentin Dupieux. After the macabro-delirious Unbelievable but true last June, he returned with a parody of felt, Japanese genre including Bioman Or Power Rangers are the greatest representatives: after having atomized a demonic turtle, the Tabac Force, five vigilantes in very tight costumes, are sent on a retreat to the countryside to strengthen the cohesion of the group. An excuse to tell horror stories by the fire, like Tales from the Crypt. Smoking makes you cough is thus built on a succession of short films which parasitize the adventures of Tabac Force (impeccable Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs Demoustier, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Oulaya Amamra, Vincent Lacoste… and Alain Chabat dubbing their boss, Chef Didier, rat in libidinous and repulsive moss).
The result is necessarily uneven, but certain segments almost deserve their own films, like the one where Doria Tillier stubbornly refuses to remove a mysterious helmet and transforms into a serial killer – a peak of gore comedy. From Dupieux, 100% funny, trendy Mandiblesfreed from the disturbing strangeness of Suede orAt the Post! Always surprising in its furious madness and its desire to short-circuit itself, this one-hour-twenty sketch film (the short format is beneficial) brings together in the same place the signature absurdity of its director and the spirit of 90s parody TV, Les Nuls, The show And The TV of the Unknowns in mind.
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The Penultimate session: Quentin Dupieux reunites with Adèle Exarchopoulos for his next film