Bye Bye Morons * * * *

Another one from the French Film Festival. (God knows there's not much else on at the moment).

Suze learns that the hairspray she has been using as a hairdresser hasn't been kind.  In fact it has been slowly killing her.  She hasn't got any future.   

An IT manager in a government department learns that his services won't be required much longer.  He hasn't got much of a future either.

The one thing Suze wants to do before dying is reconnect to her child who she gave up for adoption twenty eight years ago. The son she gave birth to at fifteen. 

The one thing he wants is his job.  Without that, life isn't worth living.

Suze, Blind Boy and I.T. Jean.

At the time Suze visits a huge government department to commence tracing of her relinquished child, he is planning to end his life. He buggers it up.  Chaos ensues.  They find themselves alone in the building together. He is unconscious.  She figures with his  IT skills he might be able to help her find her child so she drags him from the building.

With IT skills that would make the combined staff  of Google and Microsoft look like amateurs he agrees to help her trace her child in exchange for her testifying to his character.

Visiting an archive room they meet a blind archivist who is in charge of the records. The department didn't want him, they simply had to fill their quota of employing disabled people so they took him on and stuck him in the archive room where the lights are always off to save electricity.  So now an unlikely threesome is formed.

It's a chase, a caper comedy, a wonderful send-up of Government Departments, and a lot of fun as the IT nut and the Blind Man help Suze trace those who were involved in the relinquishment of her son, so she can find him before it's too late. What the IT guy can do with his laptop is God like but hey, its all part of the fun, along with the blind guy who decides to give driving a go.

It's also a moving insight into the pain a relinquishing mother who was forced to comply, and what she still might still suffer after so many years.