Smoking Causes Coughing
- brisk
- surreal
- funny
Neutral, kinetic, measured comedy / horror, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, cold, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →After a devastating battle against a diabolical turtle, a team of five avengers — known as the "Tobacco Force" — is sent on a mandatory retreat to strengthen their decaying group cohesion, where they share scary stories the film depicts. Their storytelling sojourn goes wonderfully well until Lézardin, Emperor of Evil, decides to annihilate planet Earth.
Our read · Smoking Causes Coughing (2022) reads as a neutral, kinetic, surreal comedy · horror · surreal entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Smoking Causes Coughing
What watching it is actually like.
“You want deadpan French absurdist comedy with a dysfunctional superhero team.”
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The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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