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Slack Bay
Directed by
Bruno Dumont
Not Rated
2016
2h 2m
Comedy
,
Fantasy
6.0
65%
41%
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In the early 20th century, at the Pas de Calais, people mysteriously disappear as Ma Loute, son of the local fishermen family, and Billie, daughter of the snobbish Van Peteghems, fall in love each other.
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Cast of Slack Bay
Fabrice Luchini
André van Peteghem
Juliette Binoche
Aude van Peteghem
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Isabelle van Peteghem
Jean-Luc Vincent
Christian van Peteghem
Brandon Lavieville
Ma Loute Brufort
Raph
Billie van Peteghem
Didier Després
Alfred Machin
Cyril Rigaux
Malfoy
Laura Dupré
Nadège
Thierry Lavieville
L'Eternel Brufort
Caroline Carbonnier
Mrs. Brufort
Manon Royère
Blanche van Peteghem
Lauréna Thellier
Gaby van Peteghem
Maya Sarac
La dame à l'ombrelle jaune
Noah Noulard
Cloclo Brufort
Julian Teiten
Patte Brufort
Noa Creton
Ti-Louis Brufort
Fabien Fenet
L'ecclésiastique
Yohann Belz
Le pêcheur du parc à huîtres
Yohann Poulain
Le policier naufrage
Cécile Després
La serveuse omelette
Christian Coeugniet
Le colonel
Angélique Vergara
Nudiste 1
Anna Zakharova
Nudiste 2
Yannick Pouchenaud
Le scaphandrier
Elise Merlin
Chanteuse procession
Manon Morgenthaler
Chanteuse procession
Evelyne Dandoy
Chanteuse procession
Fabrice Jolie
Chanteur procession
Slack Bay Ratings & Reviews
San Francisco Chronicle
David Lewis
"Slack Bay" is devoid of any emotional satisfaction, and laughs come few and far between, perhaps because the humor is so French-centric.
San Diego Reader
Scott Marks
Strictly for those with a strong stomach and a decidedly bent outlook.
RogerEbert.com
Simon Abrams
The film's charms are substantial, but what makes Slack Bay so original and enticing is also what makes it fairly alienating.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
A high-pitched, ululating fart of a movie, coming from an art filmmaker once known for his miserablism.
Slant Magazine
Chuck Bowen
Bruno Dumont's formalism is presently charged with a spark of simultaneously controlled and spontaneous mystery.
Brooklyn Magazine
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
A French absurdist comedy that feels wholly original, whether it's your cup of tea or not.
TheWrap
Sam Fragoso
One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
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.
New York Times
Glenn Kenny
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.
NPR
Mark Jenkins
Slack Bay is a comedy primarily in theory. More intriguing than involving, the movie uses the conventions of slapstick to undermine the rich as well as the poor.
Slant Magazine
Sam C. Mac
Cruelty here can feel pretty cheap, perhaps a result of Bruno Dumont not knowing how to effectively command comedy yet.
Variety
Peter Debruge
It's a nice alternative to the griminess of Dumont's previous regional portraits, even if he has yet to perfect this loony new tone.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
"Slack Bay" teems with the eventfulness of a serial compressed into a two-hour movie, and its sense of distillation emerges in the wide range of performance styles that Dumont elicits-and the physical precision that marks each of them.
Chicago Reader
Andrea Gronvall
Cannibalism may not be everyone's idea of funny, but French director Bruno Dumont (L'Humanit, Hadewijch) elevates it to ghoulish camp in this slapstick skewering of the French bourgeoisie.
AV Club
Mike D'Angelo
Dumont's direction for the movie stars appears to have been, "start with an absurd caricature of inbred foppishness, then quintuple it, then quintuple that, okay you're halfway there, now bigger please."
The Hollywood Reporter
Todd McCarthy
Weird and arresting.
Village Voice
Abbey Bender
Slack Bay is nothing if not anti-authoritarian, and while its anarchic energy is appealing in small doses, it becomes tiresome when it turns toward cruelty.
East Bay Express
Kelly Vance
European films used to get away with Slack Bay's brand of sustained absurdism, but today somehow that unrelieved silliness grates on the ear as well as the eye.
Film Inquiry
Tomas Trussow
An open mind and a willing heart are needed to appreciate Dumont's unique brand of zaniness, and truly, Slack Bay is a lot of fun when the initial peculiarities settle.
Culture Trip
Graham Fuller
Binoche's unbridled turn is tremendous fun to watch-she should horribly overact more often.
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