Arianna Moses Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Hayleigh Joseph This is ultimately a movie about the very bad things that can happen when we don't address our unease, when we just try to brush it off, whether that's to fit in or to preserve our self-image.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Stephanie There is, somehow, an interesting story here, as well as some good acting. There are also some good scenes

arrisake When neither of the (usually) wonderful Binoche or Luchini can save a film, you know it's a stinker. God knows why they agreed to be in this, it is truly dreadful. I actually felt a bit sorry for some of the actors, I bet they genuinely shudder with embarrassment when thinking back to it, I hope they were well paid enough to provide some comfort.

martin-807-452270 So having had a feast of high budget US feature films recently I thought I should try a cinematic sorbet and went to see French film Slack Bay at the Curzon cinema the other day in London.******Spoilers****Spoilers****Spoilers****Spoilers****Now I love comedy, several of my top ten films of all time are comedy, and I've spent quite a lot of time in France over the last 44 years, and I think, I have a very wide understanding and appreciation and knowledge of comedy. I have also written comedy, performed comedy and directed actors doing comedy.I would describe Slack Bay as 'Without humour'.Slack Bay is just a terribly unfunny film. After a mere 15 minutes (it's an excruciating 2 hours and 2 mins) I was anxiously glancing at my watch and wondering if it can really be this bad throughout - but it was!There are no 'jokes', no clever dialogue, just a little bit of visual humour. One of the main characters has a strange shambling walk, which he does in every scene. He sits in a deckchair and it collapses. But not overtime he sits in a deckchair and the one time he sits in a deckchair and it SHOULD collapse. predictably it doesn't.It is a film of grotesque but that gives a name and a 'style' to what anyone else would call rubbish. It features unjustified and unpunished cannibalism which is just horrid and not funny or even in keeping with the rest of the film. There's a lot of spitting up close to the camera which is clearly hilarious in the eyes of the 'director' but didn't elicit a titter from me or the audience. There's a lot of homophobia and one of the main characters gets a huge beating for being a boy dressed as a girl dressed as a boy (?) which just felt terribly out of place in a 'comedy'.So many scenes don't go anywhere and every joke is repeated: When the fat detective walks there is a dubbed on sound of someone rubbing balloons. again and again and again and again and again. The secret of comedy is timing, as we all know and the editor and director just never knew when to cut and when too much was too much.I was so hoping that this would be the antidote to Hollywood Block Busters that I wanted but it ain't. Apart from the pretty good wardrobe, and OK cinematography (which in these days of Digital cameras is achievable by children with an iPhone) and the star turn of actress known only as Raph, it is unwatchable pants.As I considered the varied merits of the film as I left the cinema one of the other cinema goers said to me: "What did you make of that?" I said: "It didn't really work for me, where's the story?" and he said: "It was just a terrible mess" quite.This film was nominated for an award at the Cannes Film Festival which just goes to show that I really don't know anything.1 out of 5 without humour.

writers_reign The three heavy hittters were the principal draw here and they don't disappoint. Fittingly - they are, after all, aristos of French cinema - they play aristos albeit seriously inbred and the overriding impression calls to mind one of those charity events in yesterday's England when theatrical 'royalty' let its hair down and enjoyed itself -the Coward number Three Juvenile Delinquents comes to mind. Fabrice Luchini is the most outre doing everything but scraping the ground with his knuckles whilst the other two are more nuanced. Throw in a pre-Laurel and Hardy duo - we are talking 1910 - here and we have a sort of Northern bouillabaisse where anything goes. The trick of course is to play it with a straight face which all hands do to a fare-thee-well. Not for everyone.

t_timchenko The worst movie of 2016 for me. Stay away. I like European movies. I love French cinema. And I liked Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in "Un château en Italie" and in "Ah! Si j'étais riche". Actually I went to see her perform. I was disappointed in her performance and in the movie itself. I was expecting something unusual, unorthodox and quirky but at the same time pleasant and light. But this is beyond my expectations.This movie is terrible and disgusting, not funny at all and leaving an aftertaste. I understand the metaphors and allusions, but this is just disgusting execution.There were 5 people in the movie theater at the beginning of the movie and 3 people stayed till the end (I was one of them). Why did I do it to myself? I should have left at the beginning.