Bye Bye Morons
- warm
- kinetic
- funny
Warm, breathless, measured comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
How every film is hand-scored →When 43-year-old hairdresser Suze Trappet finds out that she's seriously ill, she decides to go looking for a child she was forced to abandon when she was only 15. On her madcap bureaucratic quest she crosses paths with JB, a 50-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin, a blind archivist prone to overenthusiasm. The unlikely trio set off on a hilarious and poignant helterskelter journey across the city in search of Suze's long-lost child.
Our read · Bye Bye Morons (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive comedy · drama · music entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
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The shape of Bye Bye Morons
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