Ma Loute

HD – colour – Dolby SRD
German release: 26.01.2017
World wide release: Cannes 13.05.2016

production:
A French-German Co-production between 3B PRODUCTIONS, TWENTY TWENTY VISION FILMPRODUKTION and PALLAS FILM

in co-produktion mit:
ARTE FRANCE CINEMA / WDR

in association with:
Pictanovo, Le Freshnoy, Cofinova 12, Cinemage 10, Soficinema 12, Scope Pictures, Canal+, Cine+, Arte France

with the support of:
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung (MDM), Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (MBB), Filmförderungsanstalt (FFA), Le Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animéé (CNC), La Région Des Hauts-de-France

German Distributor: Neue Visionen Filmverleih

World Sales: Memento Films International

Script: Bruno Dumont

Director: Bruno Dumont

Producer: Jean Brehat , Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

Co-Producer: Thanassis Karathanos, Geneviève Lemal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ameLmrsd00M

copyright pictures:
© 3B productions, Twenty Twenty Vision, Pallas Film/ R. Arpajou

The story takes place at the dawn of the 20th century, in around 1910 or so. In summer, on the Channel coast, the small eatery “The Unique Omelette” livens up a peaceful setting. On the foreshore, at the edge of a line of dunes, lies Ambleteuse-Plage in the Bay of the Slack, named after the river and its small natural dry harbour, which is covered only by the high tide. The estuary shelters an oyster bed dominated by a few beach villas that, in the finer weather, are occupied by the Lille bourgeoisie who come for the fresh air and sea baths on a coast usually delivered up to the simple life of fishermen from a village set on the higher land of the hillside.

MaLoute Bréfort, 18, a young local lad – mussel harvester, fisherman and Slack ferryman – lives with his family in which all the men, his father and three brothers, are mysteriously anthropophagous. The Bréforts run rampant along the coast, seizing and devouring the upper classes of Lille-Roubaix-Tourcoing and other bathers.

The disappearances leave the whole coast in turmoil and set in motion the police whose investigation is mangled by an almost certifiable and decidedly huge police inspector, Machin, and his assistant Malfoy.

On holiday for the summer months, a rich and snobbish family from Lille, the Van Peteghems – all degenerate and decadent from inbreeding – stagnates in a villa (in the Egyptian Ptolemaic style, the Typhonium, that overlooks the bay), not without mingling during their leisure hours of walking, sailing or bathing with the ordinary local people, MaLoute and the other Bréforts who, for their effort, would gladly devour them…

The mystified love of MaLoute and young Billie Van Peteghem is going to wreak havoc in these two families, shaking their convictions, foundations and way of life.

Director: Bruno Dumont

Author: Bruno Dumont

Producer: Jean Brehat , Rachid Bouchareb, Muriel Merlin

Co-Producer: Thanassis Karathanos, Geneviève Lemal

DOP: Guillaume Defontaines

Sound: Olivier Walsack

Set design: Riton Dupire Clément

Costum: Alexandra Charles

Editing: Bruno Dumont, Basile Belkiri

World Premiere:
69. Film Festival Cannes – in competition / 13.05.2016

Seville European Film Festival / France (November 2016)
– Best actress: Raph