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Slack Bay (Ma Loute) [Sub: Eng]
Summer 1910, Slack Bay in the North of France. Mysterious disappearances have thrown the region into turmoil. The improbable Inspector Machin and his shrewd assistant Malfoy carry out an investigation. Through no fault of their own, they find themselves at the center of a strange and all-consuming love story between Ma Loute, the eldest son of a family of fishermen with rather particular habits, and Billie Van Peteghem, the youngest daughter of a wealthy, decadent bourgeois family from Lille.
9 March 1964, Paris, France
December 16, 2017
Dumont directs with a sense of whimsy, only becoming serious as it explores the relationship between the teenage characters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
April 27, 2017
One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.
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.

