A middle class appeared in Europe allowing for economic development, arts flourished, and life was good for many. Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems' mansion. Yet, the political tensions were present at the level of the relations between the big powers in Europe, and many of the national societies were sick. "Slack Bay," a black comedy set in the picture-esque French countryside during the summer of 1910, is a mystery that isn't especially mysterious, and a comedy that isn't all that funny. For many people living it those times La Belle Epoque seemed to signal an apparent stability based on the balance between the power of a few Empires and Republics. A murder mystery that opens with the discovery of human body parts stuffed inside a cow on the outskirts of a small channel town in northern France. Among them evolves a curious family, the Bréfort, renowned ferrymen of the Slack Bay, lead by the father nick-named "The Eternal", who rules as best as he can on his prankster bunch of sons, especially the impetuous Ma Loute, aged 18.

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Flandres won the Grand Prix Prize at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. 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 only at high tide. Summer 1910. In the 15th century, both France and England stake a blood claim for the French throne. Slack Bay (Ma loute) Critics Consensus Slack Bay won't resonate with all viewers, but for filmgoers attuned to absurd French farce, its … In a village on the French Opal Coast, a drifter engages in a perplexing relationship with a young woman who has suffered abuse. He hangs out on the Côte D'Opale and attends meetings of the Nationalist Party with his childhood friend Fatso.

Major ensemble scenes (a family banquet, a service on the beach) dawdle indulgently, as if waiting for the joke to start.Disappointingly, the film feels like someone trying very hard to imitate Li’l Quinquin, pulling off but a pallid counterfeit.This knowingly excessive brew of cartoonish knockabout and macabre comedy horror just isn’t that funny.None of it seems to make much sense, though it’s clear that the absurdity is no accident.Though the farce is occasionally funny, it's as bloated and windy as its comedy policeman Inspector Machin.

There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Directed by Eric Khoo, Jack Neo, K. Rajagopal, Royston Tan, Tan Pin Pin, Boo Junfeng, Kelvin Tong. Quinquin is now a grown-up and goes by the nickname CoinCoin. When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ask more questions than it answers. Giovanni Marchini Camia The Film Stage.

Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these ... Directed by Bruno Dumont.

Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. The aspirant nun Céline van Hadewijch is invited to leave the convent where she studies and she returns to the house of her parents in Paris. Winter, 1915. Ma Loute is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended.Combining savage archetypes with spot-on wit, Slack Bay is a fun, peculiar romp with deeper conceits lurking beneath the surface.In Dumont’s version of agnostic mysticism, paradoxes have often stood in for miracles, but here, where the laws of physics follow Looney Tunes rules, the secular miracle is that Billie is more or less normal — the only character who isn’t a cartoon.More weirdly fascinating than genuinely good, this beautifully made, bracingly eccentric and often arch film will generate a measure of strong support but will bewilder more.From the performances to the repetitive jokes and bizarre actions that have little bearing on anything, Slack Bay exhausts you with its intense spirit.Slack Bay is half as long as Quinquin, but still feels too long. Certificate: Tous publics The centennial anniversary of the breaking of WWI was an opportunity for several books to be written and films to be made (most of them documentaries) not only about the war itself, but also about the years that preceded it.