Of the myriad of cinematic delights that graced the big screen last year, Bruno Dumont's Li'l Quinquin was easily the most generous, tracking a series of strange killings in a small French town ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

“You shouldn’t try to make a European film. European films are very bad,” Dumont said. “You have to make a local film to make it universal.” On the surface, describing “Slack Bay” as a universal movie ...

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 ...