Van Peteghem family have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing.
16 November 1964, Turin, Piedmont, Italy
1 November 1951, Paris, France
August 6, 1973 in Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
9 March 1964, Paris, France
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.
April 27, 2017
One of those rare movies that looks like it was fun to make, and is even more fun to watch.
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.
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 21, 2017
The film's charms are substantial, but what makes Slack Bay so original and enticing is also what makes it fairly alienating.
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.
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.
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.
December 16, 2017
Dumont directs with a sense of whimsy, only becoming serious as it explores the relationship between the teenage characters.
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.
May 26, 2017
Strictly for those with a strong stomach and a decidedly bent outlook.
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.

