Bruno Dumont • 2017 • France
Juliette Binoche stars in a modern Belle Époque-era period critique.
The bourgeois Van Peteghem family are no strangers to the bliss of upper-class existence. Perched atop the cliffs of Normandy, the eccentric clan of relatives have congregated in their family villa, where they will spend the summer overlooking resplendent Slack Bay. The blithe luxury of their days is interrupted, however, when two local inspectors begin investigating a series of disappearances in the area.
Starring French cinema titans Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Slack Bay is striated along lines of pitch-black, absurdist farce. Bruno Dumont's follow-up to Lil' Quinquin premiered at Cannes, Karlovy Vary, Melbourne, Jerusalem, and Seville, where it won Best Actress and Best Film.
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Li'l Quinquin
Bruno Dumont • 2014 • France
Bruno Dumont's four-part miniseries plies the conventions of the serial murder-mystery to satirize social and political realities in present-day France.
A bovine carcass is discover...
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Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, Episod...
Bruno Dumont • France • 2018
Lil Quinquin, now coined Coincoin, is all grown up. While his old flame Eve has abandoned him for another woman, Coincoin and his pal Fatso are still running around raising hell in desolate coastal France where the inhabitants, in disguise, wander in and out of the p...
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Coincoin and the Extra-Humans, Episod...
Bruno Dumont • France • 2018
Van der Weyden and Carpentier are faced with the irrational. Are they in the presence of extraterrestrials? It does indeed look like an invasion has begun. Coincoin tries to forget about Eve in pretty Jenny’s arms; meanwhile the region’s inhabitants, having become st...
