Smoking Causes Coughing is ostensibly a riff on Power Rangers/Super Sentai, Ultraman, and other tokusatsu-style media in which spandex-clad superheroes battle intergalactic monsters, but — as is the case with writer-director Quentin Dupieux’s entire filmography — his latest genre-bending slice of French absurdity is predictably unpredictable.
The Tobacco Force is a team of avengers in which each of its five members represents a different chemical found in cigarettes: Benzene, Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra). When they’re unable to defeat an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, they call upon their powers — which only work when they’re sincere — to infect their foe with cancer to the point of bodily combustion.
The Tobacco Force has a mentor in Chief Didier. He’s a wise, mutant rat, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Splinter, except Didier is a womanizer that drools green goo. The team is...
The Tobacco Force is a team of avengers in which each of its five members represents a different chemical found in cigarettes: Benzene, Nicotine (Anaïs Demoustier), Methanol (Vincent Lacoste), Mercury (Jean-Pascal Zadi), and Ammonia (Oulaya Amamra). When they’re unable to defeat an enemy in hand-to-hand combat, they call upon their powers — which only work when they’re sincere — to infect their foe with cancer to the point of bodily combustion.
The Tobacco Force has a mentor in Chief Didier. He’s a wise, mutant rat, like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles‘ Splinter, except Didier is a womanizer that drools green goo. The team is...
- 3/29/2023
- by Alex DiVincenzo
- bloody-disgusting.com
Ok, I know that I'm almost one month late. After all, the list of the candidates for the Best Male and Female Hopes has been public knowledge since November 25. Anyway, I just want to post the information since I'm a lover of French culture. Enjoy.
The 2010 César for the Best Female Hope:
Marie-Julie Baup in Micmacs à tire-larigot
Astrid Berges Frisbey in Un barrage contre le Pacifique
Agathe Bonitzer in Un chat un chat
Sophie Cattani in Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
Judith Davis in Je te mangerais
Anaïs Demoustier in Sois sage
Mati Diop in 35 rhums
Pauline Etienne in Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront
Alice de Lencquesaing in Le père de mes enfants
Florence Loiret-Caille in Je l’aimais
Sara Martins in Mensch
Lola Naymark in L’armée du crime
Vimala Pons in La Sainte Victoire
Soko in A l’Origine
Christa Theret...
The 2010 César for the Best Female Hope:
Marie-Julie Baup in Micmacs à tire-larigot
Astrid Berges Frisbey in Un barrage contre le Pacifique
Agathe Bonitzer in Un chat un chat
Sophie Cattani in Je suis heureux que ma mère soit vivante
Judith Davis in Je te mangerais
Anaïs Demoustier in Sois sage
Mati Diop in 35 rhums
Pauline Etienne in Qu’un seul tienne et les autres suivront
Alice de Lencquesaing in Le père de mes enfants
Florence Loiret-Caille in Je l’aimais
Sara Martins in Mensch
Lola Naymark in L’armée du crime
Vimala Pons in La Sainte Victoire
Soko in A l’Origine
Christa Theret...
- 12/22/2009
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
- The film's opening first scene announces that there will be buckets of saliva used, and perhaps other specimens as well. Raging with hormones, low grade humor and charisma, Riad Sattouf's Les Beaux Gosses (Beautiful Kids) is an instant crowd pleaser and should perform well in France, but I don't think it will make its way in territories where French is not a mother tongue since every one has got a Napoleon Dynamite already. Obsessed with first base all the way till homeplate, this is the antithesis of Cannes' big winner last year in The Class. Not that the kids in this film aren't authentic, the pairs trio (two buddies and the femme fatale) are non actors who sort of have a natural appeal - but are inserted in a comedic land where the other characters feel like caricature inserts. Not a film that I would have programmed in
- 5/17/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
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