Of the myriad of cinematic delights that graced the big screen last year, Bruno Dumont's Li'l Quinquin was easily the most generous, tracking a series of strange killings in a small French town ...

In Slack Bay, French writer-director Bruno Dumont tries to have a little fun with the idea of two completely different families existing side-by-side in the same beach town in the Northwest of France, ...

The uneven, misanthropic French comedy “Slack Bay,” one of the weirdest period pieces in quite some time, is an odd combination of “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie,” Monty Python, and Laurel and ...

Set two years before “Downton Abbey” on a wind-blown inlet along the northern coast of France, Bruno Dumont’s “Slack Bay” adds a surreal twist to the peculiar clash between the classes witnessed in ...

It takes all of two minutes for Bruno Dumont’s latest film, “Slack Bay,” to poke fun at his bourgeois protagonists. A car emerges and with it is a woman who stands up, excited. “Ooo! Mussel-gatherers, ...

“You shouldn’t try to make a European film. European films are very bad,” Dumont said. “You have to make a local film to make it universal.” On the surface, describing “Slack Bay” as a universal movie ...

Bruno Dumont’s period piece "Ma Loute (Slack Bay)" is a freak of nature, shifting seemingly at will between silly slapstick, twisted black comedy and God knows what else. Fortunately for audiences, ...

It’s rare for filmmakers to change styles drastically mid-career, to raise their art from the merely idiosyncratic to the unique. It’s even more striking when such filmmakers then subject their ...