Slack Bay

Where 'P'tit Quinquin' was genuinely hilarious, 'Slack Bay' seems to think characters constantly falling over and speaking in silly voices is enough to make it a comedy. It isn't. The film looks very beautiful though.

Viewed September 23, 2017.

Absurd-comedy in the manner of farce especially when it introduces the cannibalism of peasants against aristocracy. Dumont seems to narrate the "literal" vanishing of the aristocracy at fin de siecle and they have a silly apathy and poverty against the fact that they are eaten by the democracy of the mob. Despite its visual strength and original theme, it got boring as it exploited an idea insufficient to make a strong feature worthy of any profound attention.

An absurdist comedy with a very particular tone. It's worth it for the bigger than life performances, gorgeous cinematography and cartoon-level ridiculousness.

Atrocious.

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Painfully unfunny. Luchini and Binoche "performances" are shockingly embarrassing, probably on purpose, but it doesn't make it any more bearable. Failed experiment. I liked Machin and Malfoy though, would be nice to see them in a better movie.

Comedy is no laughing matter. Here's Bruno Dumont to prove it. The actors that are brilliant in other films show up here aggressively face twisting and playing pantomime tomfoolery. The film, the acting and "comedy" were intolerable. Painfully unfunny and worst of all - on purpose.

I'm fond of the distinctive voice Dumont brings to this material, something that leaves me grasping to find a corollary in the film world. The physical comedy hearkens back to the silent era, while the social critique and the humanism in the portrayal of Billie in particular give the film a sense of immediacy and import in the contemporary world.

This is the type of broad comedy that I could have liked... had it been funny. And the longer it went, the more clear it was that this needed music to work. In this quiet economical setting you just don't get the cue for when to laugh, and it becomes just depressing. Toward the end I would have even welcomed a cheesy honk or a bell sound like they did with the silent slapstick comedies for TV in the old days. Any desperate trick to make what should have been funny.... funny.

Well shot, acted and stylized absurdist dark comedy with melodramatic undertones. Highly enjoyable if you're not squeamish or hell bent on meaning and narrative. Ride the land yacht at ease!

Might have worked as a comic book.