SLACK BAY (MA LOUTE) |
PLAYING AT THE CREST THEATRE. In French with English subtitles. AWARDS - Best Film & Best Actress (Raph), Seville European Film Festival 2016 REVIEWS Sublimely deranged. Nigel Andrews, Financial Times Spirited and often gorgeous. Glenn Kenny, New York Times Movies like "Slack Bay" justify the existence of the movies as a medium. Andy Crump, Paste Magazine Binoche’s unbridled turn is tremendous fun to watch. Graham Fuller, Culture Trip Everyone seems to have drunk their bodyweight in absinthe. Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian Completely off the wall. Andrea Picard, Cinema Scope A work of madcap inspiration. Jordan Cronk, Film Comment The boldest and freest of recent genre mashups. Raises conflicts of class, character, and gender into off-kilter legend. Richard Brody, The New Yorker Suggests Buñuel’s "L’Age d’Or" by way of Godard’s "Weekend"... Dumont's most polished work. Eric Kohn, Indiewire |
PURCHASE 16th SFFF The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family—among them Academy Award winner Juliette Binoche (Camille Claudel 1915 - SFFF 2014, Paris - SFFF 2009), Fabrice Luchini (Gemma Bovery - SFFF 2015, In the House - SFFF 2013) and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi—have settled in for another summer at their clifftop villa (the Typhonium, a tomblike faux-Egyptian manor) overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors (Machin and Malfoy) investigating a string of tourists gone missing. As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family’s genderfluid teen and the son of a local fisherman, Binoche and company ratchet the slapstick up to eleven. Director Bruno Dumont (Li’l Quinquin - SFFF 2015, Camille Claudel 1915 - SFFF 2014, and many others over the years) has decided to have fun, after years of serious, intellectual, dramatic features! He cites Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Laurel and Hardy as cinematic influences for his delightful second foray (after L'il Quinquin) into slapstick comedy and absurdist farce. Outrageously funny, with splendid views of the Northern beaches that Dumont loves so much, Slack Bay received nine nominations (including Best Film, Director, Actor, and Supporting Actress) at the 2017 César Awards. Slack Bay is quite indescribable. It is a comedy of manners satirizing France's class divide (and giving its actors, in particular Juliette Binoche and Fabrice Luchini, whom you've never seen act this way, a safe space for extreme zaniness) It is a mystery. It is also a tragic love story. You'll love it, or you'll hate it, but it won't leave you indifferent. Give it a try! Shown with HOME SWEET HOME (LE GRAND BAIN) by Valérie Leroy CREST THEATRE |
