What we like about Dupontel and that we find in "Adieu les cons"

What we like about Albert Dupontel and that we find in "Adieu les cons" -

• The encounter between a suicidal man, a woman condemned by illness and a blind employee in "Adieu les cons" turns out to be a marvel of humor and poetry.

• Albert Dupontel's fierce humor sparks as he heads alongside Virginie Efira and Nicolas Marié.

"It is the story of a woman who can no longer live, when she would like to, and of a man who no longer wants to live, when he could", summarizes Albert Dupontel when he presents his film at 

.

The woman is Virginie Efira as a hairdresser suffering from an incurable disease and determined to find the child, now an adult, whom she had to abandon.

The man is Dupontel himself who stages himself as a dismissed and suicidal employee.

Their meeting with a blind civil servant (Nicolas Marié, irresistible) sparks in this comedy with joyously dark humor.

Tribute to Monty Python

If Albert Dupontel dedicates his film to Monty Python Terry Jones, who died last January, and pays homage to

Terry Gillliam's

film 

, he finds a tone of his own to mock our current society with a mixture of poetry and ferocity of the best aloi.

"I am a desperate romantic" he confides to us.

are both and that's what makes the charm of this work as funny as it is serious.

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