After See You Up There, which was awarded 5 Cesars in 2018 including Best Director, Albert Dupontel returns to a more intimate storyline and brilliantly blends tragedy and burlesque. Our team accompanied the film, which was produced by Catherine Bozorgan through the company ADCB Films, in its search for Locations. It has been in theaters since October 21.
Filming
Bye-bye Morons, filmed in 39 days, 38 of which were spent in Paris Region, immerses us in perpetually changing landscapes: as the images unfold, construction sites follow one another, cranes multiply, skyscrapers emerge and the traditional city centers disappear.
The film received a grant from the Paris Region Grant Fund.
Synopsis
When Suze Trappet (Virginie Efira) learns that she is seriously ill, she decides to look for the child she abandoned when she was 15. On her way, she meets JB (Albert Dupontel), a fifty-year-old man in the middle of a burnout, and Mr. Blin (Nicolas Marié), a blind archivist. Together, they embark on a quest that is as spectacular as it is improbable.
Key figures
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Employment in Paris Region150 technicians
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Filming in Paris region18 days in studio | 20 days in natural settings
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Post-production11 months
Dupontel, who was inspired by the poetic universe of Terry Gilliam's film Brazil, chose to film almost all of the night scenes at the Bry sur Marne studio in order to magnify these urban worlds in post-production. The supervision of the special effects was entrusted to Cédric Fayolle, Dupontel's collaborator on See You Up There and 9 Month Stretch. In all, it took 8 months of work to build the cities of the future imagined by Albert Dupontel and 11 months of post-production for the entire film.
As for the natural settings, Aude Lemercier found dreamlike (the Cité des dents de Scie in Trappes) and poetic (the church of Saint-Maclou in Conflans St Honorine) places in Paris Region to enhance the director's vision. The hospital of Gonesse and the company Oger Intl in Saint Ouen also welcomed the team for the occasion.
In this new opus on motherhood, a theme that is dear to the director, we find ordinary characters, who have almost been forgotten by history, and who, in spite of themselves, fall into a hard-hitting and offbeat road movie. Striking is also the word that describes the mix of genres chosen by Dupontel, again in reference to Terry Gilliam, as several characters in his film bear the names of the anti-heroes of Brazil.