Geronimo1967
If youre up for a bit of borderline farcical pantomime that manages to merge elements of Laurel and Hardy with Ingmar Bergman by way of Mary Poppins then this is the film for you. Its set amidst the sand dunes of the coast of La Manche where folks have begun to mysteriously disappear. Drafted in to investigate is the avuncular Insp. Machin (Didier Després) and his sidekick Malfoy (Cyril Rigaux). They quickly settle their investigation on a confluence of the sea and the Slack river, where a family of subsistence oyster farmers live under the gaze of the mansion of the wealthy Van Peteghem family. This family - that wouldnt have looked out of place at the start of John Boormans Deliverance (1972) - largely ignore the locals and live their deg...