Here at Grimmfest, we’re all huge fans of the uniquely off-the-wall cinema of Quentin Dupieux, so we are delighted to be partnering with Picturehouse Entertainment and HOME to promote this head-spinning Dupieux double bill.
Screening on Friday 23rd June at 7.30pm, first up Oscar-winner Jean Dujardin stars as a man possessed by his own jacket in DEERSKIN, and there’s an exclusive preview screening of SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING, which offers Dupieux’s characteristically deadpan and deconstructive take on the superhero genre.
Tickets are just £11.15, don’t miss out!
Here’s a little more info on the films along with trailers…
DEERSKIN
(LE DAIM)
With the relationship with his wife in tatters, Georges (Jean Dujardin) retreats to a remote town where he purchases the deerskin jacket of his dreams. However, his ever-closer relationship with his deerskin jacket starts to take him down a darker path which he begins to document on a video camera. Laugh out loud funny and with a cast that also includes Adèle Haenel, the outstanding film from Quentin Dupieux has Killer Style.
SMOKING CAUSES COUGHING
(FUMER FAIT TOUSSER)
Incredible but true, yet another quirky absurdist comedy sci-fi fantasy from visionary director Quentin Dupieux. The Tobacco Force is a superhero quintet fighting evil by using cigarette cancer-causing substances as their weapon of choice. But their super rat Chief Didier has noticed friction in the team. Since there’s an upcoming battle against evil conqueror Lezardin on the horizon, Didier sends them to a lake retreat for a team-building holiday where they tell each other scary campfire tales. Will they form a cohesive unit again in time for the final epic face-off?
