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Adieu les cons [Bye Bye Morons] (Albert Dupontel, 2020)

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Bye Bye, Morons (2020) - Film Review

Albert Dupontel's #ByeByeMorons is out in cinemas and on Curzon Home from Fri 23 July - check out our #review:

Bye Bye, Morons (Original title: Adieu les Cons) is a French comedy-drama that stars and is directed by Irréversible actor Albert Dupontel. The film follows forty-something hairdresser Suze (Virginie Efira) who decides to go looking for her long-lost child with two eccentric characters, namely overworked IT worker Jean-Baptiste (Dupontel) and blind archivist Mr Blin (Nicolas Marié). When Bye…

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Adieu les cons aka Bye Bye Morons https://bit.ly/3BuAR69 The French comedy Adieu Les Cons (Bye Bye Morons in English) is dedicated to Monty Python’s Terry Jones, who died while it was being made, and also features a blink-and-miss-it cameo by Terry Gilliam, another Python. Given that the film’s director, co-writer and star, Albert Dupontel, is a big fan of the British comedy troupe, … Read more

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Bye Bye Morons

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A seriously-ill woman tries to find her long-lost child with the help of a man in the middle of a burnout and a blind archivist.

The two male characters are just weird, and the plot advances with lots of coincidences. That would not really be a problem if the movie were truly funny. But the comedy is mainly just silly.

And the drama part towards the end feels so incredibly forced. The combination did not work for me.

But it should be mentioned that the movie won 6 (six) Césars. I suspect due to the lack of competition during the pandemic.

On the plus side, the movie poster looks nice.