Quentin Dupieux and his team received long acclaim before and after the screening of “Smoking makes you cough”.
This delirious comedy brings together a fine line-up of stars.
The director was very moved by this enthusiastic welcome from an overexcited public.
They came, they are all here.
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blanche Gardin, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Pascal Zadi, Alain Chabat, Grégoire Ludig, David Marsais, Anaïs Demoustier, Oulaya Amamra and Vincent Lacoste surrounded Quentin Dupieux to present
r Smoking makes you cough
in Cannes during the Midnight screening.
They were acclaimed before the screening even started!
Funny finesse
“It's a film that is extremely funny and delicate, as Quentin is used to,” confided Jean-Pascal Zadi to
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just before the screening.
Of a finesse not always, but to howl with laughter, absolutely!
The pitch?
Superheroes in tights tell scary stories.
The occasion for a series of hilarious sketches, while Benoît Poelvoorde (absent from Cannes, but very present on the screen), plays an extraterrestrial lizard whose ambition is to destroy the earth before going to dinner with his family.
Delirious gore, monsters worthy of Japanese cinema and a drooling rat voiced by Alain Chabat are among the ingredients of this generous film, a bit crazy but so joyful that the enthusiastic spectators almost refused to let the team leave the screening.
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“I feel like I'm getting married, but I've already been married.
It was a bit tense for us, but we relaxed,” declared Quentin Dupieux to the cheers of the crowd.
Very moved, the director added: "I'm crying inside, I'm not crying outside".
It is only fair since his film made the spectators cry with laughter who thus gave him the change of his coin.
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Adèle Exarchopoulos
Comedy
Benoit Poelvoorde
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