Slack Bay's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
"Ma Loute is a fascinatingly made film, theatrically extravagant and precise, although perhaps a little over-extended."
Indiewire
Combining savage archetypes with spot-on wit, Slack Bay is a fun, peculiar romp with deeper conceits lurking beneath the surface.
The Hollywood Reporter
"More weirdly fascinating than genuinely good, this beautifully made, bracingly eccentric."
The Playlist
From the performances to the repetitive jokes and bizarre actions that have little bearing on anything, Slack Bay exhausts you with its intense spirit.
The Telegraph
"'Slack Bay' is half as long as Quinquin, but still feels too long. Major ensemble scenes (a family banquet, a service on the beach) dawdle indulgently, as if waiting for the joke to start."
Variety
"For Dumont, who has spent his entire career wallowing in the mud and misery of this particular region (his own home turf), "Slack Bay" feels both more and less like a movie than anything the misanthropic filmmaker has done before.Dumont is still finding his feet in the genre."
Screen Daily
This knowingly excessive brew of cartoonish knockabout and macabre comedy horror just isn?t that funny.
El Mundo
Foolish, crazy, sometimes funny and always a baffling proposal (...) The problem (...) is the lack of measurement.
ABC
A unexpected idiotic comedy with a fantastic Fabrice Luchini (...) an eulogy of the excess and the fake radicalism.
Fotogramas
A correct surrealist comedy (...) The problem is not aesthetic, it is narrative. Watching 'Ma Loute' people miss the suspense that grew in 'Li'l Quinquin'.