These unlikely officers are investigating a string of mysterious disappearances: people have been vanishing from the beach: holidaymakers, not locals. But love is just one of the things that is in the air in the summer of 1910. 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. 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. "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. 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. If you are using a VPN, and other users of the same VPN are abusing the service, then you'll be automatically banned as well. Raph joue le rôle de Billie Van Peteghem dans Ma Loute, réalisé par Bruno Dumont en 2016. [3][4] The film is set in a coastal town in north France in 1910. Directed by Bruno Dumont. A well-to-do extended family visits their summer house (the Typhonium) for their annual seaside holidays. You requested a very large number of pages in a very short time, causing problems for our server (this can happen if you hit 'refresh' over and over).

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 scene is a lovely stretch of the French coast in the summer of 1910, where a local family scratches a living harvesting mussels from the beach: they are the Bruforts, who have a glowering teen son who they call Ma Loute (Brandon Lavieville). (Required), You can request being unbanned by clicking. Our automated banning policies are not perfect and sometimes too strict, and some IP addresses are banned by accident.

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. Ma Loute is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended. We are hoping to eventually work on a solution for this when we have the resources to do so.

Ma Loute is still very strange and very funny. 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. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Summer 1910.

Is there a more extraordinary auteur career than that of Bruno Dumont? 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. Raph is an actress, known for Slack Bay (2016), Capitaine Marleau (2015) and Travelers (2018). Slack Bay (French: Ma Loute) is a 2016 French comedy film directed by Bruno Dumont. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. They come across a police investigation led by Inspector Machin looking into several disappearances of tourists in the area.

There is a hilariously insubordinate maid called Nadège (Laura Dupré) who knows the truth about the disappearances. Raph, Actress: Ma Loute. Dumont’s comedy really has grown organically from his earlier, serious work.

Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join …

The film was shot in several locations in the Pas-de-Calais area. The nearest comparison I can think of for Dumont’s tonal shift is David Gordon Green, who started his career as an obvious inheritor of Malick; then bafflingly switched tracks to fratboy laughs, and periodically switched back. You might be using a VPN. Slack Bay (French: Ma Loute) is a 2016 French comedy film directed by Bruno Dumont.