It takes brass balls to riff on yourself when you’re an artist, even if you’ve been making art long enough to warrant veteran status. It takes even brassier balls to riff on your most recent work of ...

Set two years before “Downton Abbey” on a wind-blown inlet along the northern coast of France, Bruno Dumont’s “Slack Bay” adds a surreal twist to the peculiar clash between the classes witnessed in ...

Bruno Dumont’s period piece "Ma Loute (Slack Bay)" is a freak of nature, shifting seemingly at will between silly slapstick, twisted black comedy and God knows what else. Fortunately for audiences, ...

The uneven, misanthropic French comedy “Slack Bay,” one of the weirdest period pieces in quite some time, is an odd combination of “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” Monty Python, and Laurel and ...

Across his seven feature films, French director Bruno Dumont has always regarded French society with a fair amount of skepticism. Jumping to the outrageous extremes for his eighth feature “Slack Bay,” ...

The company has further acquired theatrical, home entertainment and digital rights in the UK/Ireland for Bruno Dumont’s Competition entry, Slack Bay (Ma Loute). It will release in partnership with ...

Slack Bay review: Bruno Dumont’s completely bonkers French comedy, local title Ma Loute, swings into Cannes. Here’s our Slack Bay review. The film was screened before us as part of this year’s ...

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 ...

It takes all of two minutes for Bruno Dumont’s latest film, “Slack Bay,” to poke fun at his bourgeois protagonists. A car emerges and with it is a woman who stands up, excited. “Ooo! Mussel-gatherers, ...

Right when you thought French cinema couldn't get any more absurd, auteur filmmaker Bruno Dumont presents a burlesque comedy in the Official Selection, which makes Staying Vertical appear banal in ...

The latest from controversial French auteur Bruno Dumont, starring Juliette Binoche, is a period slapstick murder mystery set on on the northern French coast around 1910. By Todd McCarthy Slack Bay ...