‘Don’t ever call me a Mighty Morphin Power Ranger throwback again!’
I wasa chain smoker,’ groans director Quentin Dupieux (Rubber, Deerskin). ‘Nightmare! Smoking all the time.’ After quitting eight years ago, the French master of the absurd is now into vaping, but he’s not so anti-smoking that he can’t have some fun. His latest movie, Smoking Causes Coughing, is a wild sci-fi comedy about a group of catsuit-clad heroes called the Tobacco Force – all named after ingredients (Nicotine, Methanol, etc) in this most addictive of substances.