{"id":12129,"date":"2017-06-22T20:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T01:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=12129"},"modified":"2017-06-20T12:45:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T17:45:56","slug":"slack-bay-2016-bruno-dumont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/12129","title":{"rendered":"Slack Bay (2016, Bruno Dumont)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dumont goes even wackier than Lil Quinquin<\/a><\/em>, though this one seemed more coherent, story-wise. I thought it’d be hard to top Quinquin<\/em>‘s twitchy detective and dullard assistant, but now he’s dressed his lead detectives like Laurel & Hardy, the head cop (the fat one) rolling himself down hills when he’s too tired to walk, and simply inflating and floating away at the end.<\/p>\n

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Just like Quinquin<\/em> was named after the lead rapscallion from a poor, possibly criminal family, the French title of this movie was Ma Loute<\/em> – the nickname of the young man from the only family that seems to live in this picturesque rural town. I suppose they fish, though when a wealthy family arrives at their palatial summer home, we discover what else they do; they kidnap, murder, and eat the rich. The richies are so ludicrously over-the-top (and inbred, it turns out) that it’s tempting to root for the local brutes, except the richies also have ringers in Juliette Binoche and a beautiful\/mysterious transgender girl who has a short-lived romance with Ma Loute. Also they’re just too damned silly to wish death upon.<\/p>\n

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Sicinski describes the richies:<\/p>\n

Descending upon the bay for the summer are upper-class cityfolk, bizarre caricatures of humanity sprung from some Gallic division of Monty Python. The Van Peteghems are “led” by spastic, bumbling Andr\u00e9 (Fabrice Luchini), his prim, lachrymose wife Isabelle (Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), brother \/ cousin Christian (Jean-Luc Vincent), a sort of lacquered descendent of brain-addled mystic Johannes from Dreyer’s Ordet<\/a><\/em>; and eventually, Aunt Aude (Juliette Binoche), a wailing, flailing hysteric whose behavior resembles that of a regional dinner theatre actress on nitrous oxide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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I never would’ve guessed that the richie paterfamilias had been in Rohmer films, but there you go: he played the lead in Perceval<\/a><\/em>. Tedeschi is lately known as a director, was also in Nenette & Boni<\/em> and Saint Laurent<\/em>. Vincent and Binoche costarred in Dumont’s much more serious Camille Claudel 1915<\/em>. Ma Loute, his dad The Eternal, his mom, his almost-girlfriend Raph and the two cops just came out of nowhere.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dumont goes even wackier than Lil Quinquin, though this one seemed more coherent, story-wise. I thought it’d be hard to top Quinquin‘s twitchy detective and dullard assistant, but now he’s dressed his lead detectives like Laurel & Hardy, the head cop (the fat one) rolling himself down hills when he’s too tired to walk, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1049,2066,955,177,364,2303,2302],"class_list":["post-12129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-2010s","tag-bruno-dumont","tag-cannibalism","tag-juliette-binoche","tag-laurel-hardy","tag-levitation","tag-transgender"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12162,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12129\/revisions\/12162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}