Who I Ate on My Summer Vacation: Slack Bay

Slack BayDirected by Bruno DumontOpens April 21
Once labeled as part of a “New French Extremity,” Bruno Dumont for years had a reputation as one of the European art-house’s most stalwart killjoys, a Hanekean exponent of austerity and provocation. That began to change with his last film, the shaggy-dog policier Li’l Quinquin: without relinquishing any of his gravity, Dumont revealed (or discovered) himself to be a nimble conductor of majestic, filigreed slapstick. The new