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SLACK BAY by Bruno Dumont

• Director : Bruno Dumont
• Genre : Comedy ​

9 nominations – César 2017
*Best Film
*Best Actor – Fabrice Luchini
*Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
*Best Director – Bruno Dumont
*Most Promising Actress – Raph
*Best photography – Guillaume Deffontaines
*Best Original Script – Bruno Dumont
*Best Costumes Design – Alexandra Charles
*Best Set – Riton Dupire-Clément

*Nomination Most Promising Actress for Raph – Lumière Awards 2017 *

*Official Competition – Cannes Film Festival 2016*

*Giraldillo de oro – Seville International Film Festival 2016*

 

Summer 1910 
Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicentre of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where the Slack river and the sea join only at high tide.

There lives a small community of fishermen and other oyster farmers. Among them evolves a curious family, the Brufort, 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.

Towering high above the bay stands the Van Peteghems’ mansion. Every summer, this bourgeois family – all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding – stagnates in the villa, not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing, with the ordinary local people, Ma Loute and the other Bruforts.

Over the course of five days, as starts a peculiar love story between Ma Loute and the young and mischievous Billie Van Peteghem, confusion and mystification will descend on both families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life.