{"id":15792,"date":"2023-07-21T21:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T01:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=15792"},"modified":"2023-07-16T14:50:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T18:50:12","slug":"smoking-causes-coughing-2022-quentin-dupieux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/15792","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Causes Coughing (2022, Quentin Dupieux)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A movie of distractions &#8211; appears to be a superhero story, but nothing actually happens.  The Tobacco Force gets introduced destroying a turtle guy and soaking some bystanders in turtle gore.  Then they take some time off and tell stories &#8211; about a woman with a isolation helmet stuck over her head, and a guy reduced to a sentient bucket of blood from a severe workplace accident &#8211; while their lizard-faced enemy is off blowing up the world.  Dupieux&#8217;s things tend to be short and absurd, definitely worth watching every year or two.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/coughing1.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Ad\u00e8le Exarchopoulos is the other woman in the helmet story, Blanche Gardin (producer of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/14982\">France<\/a><\/em>) is the bucket carrier, and going way back, the director\/star of <em>Man Bites Dog<\/em> plays Lizardin.  Our five cigarette-themed superheroes, who claim they do not promote smoking, include Vincent Lacoste (lead detective of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/15419\">Irma Vep Remake<\/a><\/em>) and Ana\u00efs Demoustier (maid of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/12026\">Bird People<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/coughing3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image23\/coughing2.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A movie of distractions &#8211; appears to be a superhero story, but nothing actually happens. The Tobacco Force gets introduced destroying a turtle guy and soaking some bystanders in turtle gore. Then they take some time off and tell stories &#8211; about a woman with a isolation helmet stuck over her head, and a guy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2643,3123,139,34,1206,3141,2256],"class_list":["post-15792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2020s","tag-adele-exarchopoulos","tag-comics","tag-france","tag-quentin-dupieux","tag-smoking","tag-turtle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15792"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15815,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15792\/revisions\/15815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}