Thursday 1 July 2021

Bye Bye Morons: Film Review

Bye Bye Morons: Film Review

Cast: Virginie Efira, Albert Dupontel
Director: Albert Dupontel

If you are a fan of dark French comedies, then perhaps Adieu Les Cons will be for you.

The film stars Virginie Efira as a seriously ill woman Suze whose terminal diagnosis sends her into a tailspin.
Bye Bye Morons: Film Review

Determined to track down the child she abandoned at birth, she finds herself thrust into the path of a suicidal tech consultant (Dupontel) whose thwarted attempt at ending it all sees him blasting a hole in the wall and nearly taking out Suze’s internal affairs helper.

As the pair set out to try and complete her dying wish, adieu les cons aka Bye Bye Morons morphs into a farcical road movie whose ending seems to want to ape Thelma and Louise’s freeze frame finale.

But in between - and despite a peppy 85 minute run time - the film’s got little else to cling onto

There may be a subtlety to some of the acting, and Efira brings gravitas to Suze and a humanity to her quest, but it’s not quite enough to pull you into the farce-heavy world.
Bye Bye Morons: Film Review

It may have won plenty of awards in the 2021 César  Awards
 and may score a few audience wins for those looking for something whose tone lands somewhere between wannabe farce and would-be pathos.

But all in all Bye Bye Morons deserves to be farewelled - and little more than that.

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