Summer 1910. Seventeen years ago in Cannes, Dumont caused shock-waves with his brutally realist, yet enigmatic drama L’Humanité, about a killer at large in a northern French town, and a cop who seems so placid, so clueless as to be bordering on having learning disabilities. "Assayas, Dumont, Garcia and Guiraudie: Four aces for the Palme d'Or", "Slack Bay (2017) - International Box Office Results - Box Office Mojo", "2016 Cannes Film Festival Announces Lineup", "Cannes 2016: Film Festival Unveils Official Selection Lineup", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Slack_Bay&oldid=959070367, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Jean-Luc Vincent as Christian Van Peteghem, Didier Després as Detective Inspector Machin, This page was last edited on 27 May 2020, at 00:51.
A couple of bizarre cops arrive on the scene, one fat and one thin, dressed in black suits and bowlers like Laurel and Hardy, and they are subject to absurd indignities: the fat one keeps falling over and rolling down the dunes. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The Van Peteghems themselves are insufferably haughty, patronising the lower orders and swooning over the “picturesque” landscape and locals, feeling as much about their treasured vacation spot as Proust felt about Combray. There’s also the surreal meta-strangeness of Ken Russell’s version of The Boyfriend.
It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Step 2 (optional): Enter any other comments/feedback here, Step 3: Enter your email address. You (or someone with the same IP address as you) might be using a script or program to download pages from this site automatically. You might have the Hola VPN extension installed. Raph joue le rôle de Billie Van Peteghem dans Ma Loute, réalisé par Bruno Dumont en 2016. If you don't think that you've
He has now returned to these ideas again in Slack Bay. It is on one of these carries that love starts to bloom between Ma Loute and Billie Van Peteghem (Raph), a boyish girl or a girlish boy, a mystery that is never quite resolved. The film features a gallery of nightmare faces and outrageous performances from French cinema A-listers: hilarious or unforgivable, according to taste.
Having started as one of Europe’s foremost purveyors of extreme cinema and extreme seriousness, he made a startling move to wacky broad comedy, and is handling it as if to the manner born. Everything about everything and everyone is bizarre. Maybe murders in northern France and bafflingly incompetent cops are to Dumont what water lilies were to Monet. You might have a buggy browser extension installed. s there a more extraordinary auteur career than that of Bruno Dumont? https://www.theguardian.com/.../may/13/bruno-dumont-european-film-ma-loute They come across a police investigation led by Inspector Machin looking into several disappearances of tourists in the area. Why France's god of grim made a knockabout Clouseau-style comedy. We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so. Dumont’s earlier and similar comedy P’tit Quinquin paradoxically worked better at the extended length of a mini-series, in which all the surreal episodes and byways and culs-de-sac could be thoroughly explored.
Ma Loute is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended. The Pythonesque drawing-room absurdity of their leisured existence is in contrast to the brutal toughness of the Bruforts’ life and the placid, yet faintly sinister scenes of the bay and the dunes themselves: curving and undulating and hiding horrible secrets. L’Humanité contained ideas that had been present in his debut, The Life of Jesus and in subsequent movies which had mysterious epiphanies and anti-realist inconsistencies. (Required), You can request being unbanned by clicking. With Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Jean-Luc Vincent.
They include Fabrice Luchini, Valerie Bruni-Tedeschi and even Juliette Binoche who all go over the top; actually, Bruni-Tedeschi is relatively restrained compared to the operatic whooping and mugging from Binoche. You might be using a VPN. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. And yet they are more dysfunctional and more physically ungainly as the working class to whom they offer their condescending good wishes: all of the Van Peteghems seem to be getting into physical scrapes or falling over. Now he gives us Ma Loute, or Slack Bay, a macabre pastoral entertainment by the seaside from the belle époque: it’s an old-fashioned provincial comedy with something of Clochemerle, a world in which everyone seems to have drunk their bodyweight in absinthe. Bruno Dumont, the former high priest of French seriousness, has successfully shifted to slapstick and pratfalls in this crime comedy set during the Belle Époque, Last modified on Thu 22 Feb 2018 13.41 EST. Raph, Actress: Ma Loute. You could have been banned by mistake.