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Slack Bay

Ma Loute

2016

Bruno Dumont

Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Brandon Lavieville ...

5.0

1,106

Comedy. Drama Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide. There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers.

	Author	Review
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"Whatever Dumont means to convey about class, conformity, and the impossibility of escaping one’s nature (...) can barely be discerned amidst all the mirthless pratfalls, mugging, screeching, and flailing."	NEG
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"More weirdly fascinating than genuinely good, this beautifully made [is] bracingly eccentric."	NEU
United States	Nikola Grozdanovic The Playlist	"Dumont’s dark undercurrents surge under 'Slack Bay' and its forcefully burlesque facade, but the film does overstay its welcome and crosses the limits of control in one too many scenes."	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"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."	NEU
United Kingdom	Guy Lodge Time Out	"Dumont is still in a mordantly merry mood, as this alternately buoyant, bleak and thoroughly bananas seaside ramble makes delightfully clear (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"The early stretches of 'Slack Bay' promise something wacky and riotous (...) But Dumont is trying too hard to get these big laughs, and he’s trying for too many (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"'Ma Loute' is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Glenn Kenny The New York Times	"This is a spirited and often gorgeous film (...) but it's not an easy one."	POS

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