Where to watch
Available at home
Inspectors investigate missing tourists while eccentric family enjoys summer at cliff-top villa.
Trailer
Why watch the movie Slack Bay?
Our suggestions
Hint: In a race across the US heartland, a red car discovers the true meaning of friendship.
Think you can guess today's movie? 🤔
One hint, 6 chances, and a new movie to guess every day
The bourgeois and extremely eccentric Van Peteghem family - among them Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi - have settled in for another summer at their cliff-top villa overlooking the picturesque Slack Bay. Their leisurely rhythm of sunbathing and seaside constitutionals is soon interrupted by the arrival of two bumbling inspectors investigating a string of tourists gone missing (and serving full-on Keystone Kops). As the macabre mysteries mount and love blossoms between the family's genderqueer teen and the son of a local fisherman, Binoche and company ratchet the slapstick up to eleven. It's no wonder director Bruno Dumont (Li'l Quinquin, Camille Claudel 1915) cites Peter Sellers, Monty Python, and Laurel and Hardy as cinematic influences for his delightful foray into winking, absurdist farce.
"This isn't a bawdy comedy, but it's still a funny movie with interesting characters. The result is strange, yes, but it's interesting precisely because of that, full of nonsensical humor in an aesthetic from the beginning of the 20th century, reminiscent at times of the movie 'Those Magnificent Men and Their Flying Machines'. If that's what you're looking for..."