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Slack Bay (Ma Loute) [Sub: Eng]
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The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family-among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi-have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing (and serving full-on Keystone Kops). As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family's genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman, Binoche and company ratchet the slapstick up to eleven. It's no wonder director Bruno Dumont (Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) cites Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Laurel and Hardy as cinematic influences for his delightful foray into winking, absurdist farce.
The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family-among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi-have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing (and serving full-on Keystone Kops). As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family's genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman, Binoche and company ratchet the slapstick up to eleven. It's no wonder director Bruno Dumont (Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) cites Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Laurel and Hardy as cinematic influences for his delightful foray into winking, absurdist farce.
Actors:
Caroline Carbonnier,
Fabien Fenet,
Juliette Binoche,
Cécile Després,
Julian Teiten,
Fabrice Jolie,
Maya Sarac,
Yohann Poulain,
Yannick Pouchenaud,
Manon Royère,
Yohann Belz,
...»
Caroline Carbonnier
Fabien Fenet
Juliette Binoche
9 March 1964, Paris, France
Cécile Després
Julian Teiten
Fabrice Jolie
Maya Sarac
Yohann Poulain
Yannick Pouchenaud
Manon Royère
Yohann Belz
Genre:
Comedy
Director:
Bruno Dumont
Bruno Dumont
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November 16, 2017
Bruno Dumont pushed himself as a filmmaker with his comic detective miniseries "P'tit Quinquin", and now he seems to have confirmed this new direction for the cinema with "Slack Bay", a pratfall-filled coastal tale of crime and love set in the 1910s.
May 26, 2017
Strictly for those with a strong stomach and a decidedly bent outlook.
October 03, 2017
... the provocative Ma Loute is in parts subversive, perverse, and politically incorrect, while it fashions a bifurcated study of good and evil, love and hate, and, ultimately, social injustice and the sheer vulgarity of vanity itself.
April 20, 2017
This is a spirited and often gorgeous film (Guillaume Deffontaines, the cinematographer, makes the eyes of even the most ostensibly unattractive characters supernaturally beautiful), but it's not an easy one.
December 08, 2017
Slack Bay is a very weird concoction that won't be to everyone's taste. Yet this superbly photographed fabrication is, ultimately, strangely compelling.
December 21, 2017
Slack Bay is not always funny, but it's truly unique and in the long run, more emotionally powerful than might be expected.
June 14, 2017
"Slack Bay" is devoid of any emotional satisfaction, and laughs come few and far between, perhaps because the humor is so French-centric.
April 27, 2017
Though the combination of social critique and unhinged laughs doesn't always jell, the movie is quite gloriously a thing unto itself, even as it draws upon obvious inspirations.
December 13, 2017
With a touch of Tintin and a pinch of Pynchon, it winds back and forth across the Channel coast so that the beautifully crisp natural tones and light bathe the degradation and deformity that perpetually lurks in this raspberry to French history.
April 27, 2017
One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.
December 16, 2017
Dumont directs with a sense of whimsy, only becoming serious as it explores the relationship between the teenage characters.
April 21, 2017
The film's charms are substantial, but what makes Slack Bay so original and enticing is also what makes it fairly alienating.

