What joy to laugh heartily! It is the reaction caused by Dodo by Greek director Panos H. Koutras, presented at the Cannes Film Festival in the Cannes Première section. A dodo, a large poultry from Mauritius that has officially disappeared for three hundred years, sows panic in a family in crisis. Where is he from ? What does he want and above all what to do with this cumbersome visitor?
This is what this ferocious comedy tells, a gallery of unflattering portraits brushed with a caustic humor that scratches spectators and characters to the point of blood. “I chose the dodo because it was exterminated by humans in a very short time and because it symbolizes the inconsistency of our species,” explains the filmmaker.
Between settlements of family scores at the Feast and an incredible delirium à la Almodovar, the director of Attack of the Giant Moussaka (2000) and Xenia (2014), had the room roaring with laughter. The colorful sequences of clashes and revelations are witnessed by the incredibly endearing plump dodo who is once again confronted with the madness of man. He is the real hero of a game of massacre of the most enjoyable.