For a while there, Bruno Dumont had a reputation for making Very Serious Movies with a distinct style that tended to be embraced by diehard cinephiles but little else. But all that changed with 2014's cinematic miniseries "P'tit Quinquin" which not only found critical favor, but the kind of broader arthouse audience Dumont never experienced before. And judging by the look of his upcoming "Slack Bay," that's unlikely to change.
Starring Fabrice Luchini, Juliette Binoche, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, and Jean-Luc Vincent, this is a wild, 1910-set tale about the cannibalistic Bréfort family and their connection to a string disappearances in Lille, Roubaix and Tourcoing. Here's the synopsis:
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 epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site...
