Ma Loute director Bruno Dumont: 'You can’t make a "European film"’

“‘European films’ are really bad,” he told the press after the first screening of his new comedy Ma Loute (Slack Bay).

But he said the experience of working on Ma Loute and his previous film, a knockabout comedy called P’tit Quinquin, had helped him come to appreciate the “noble” arts of comedy and caricature.

There is, according to one its most heralded practitioners, no such thing as a good “European film”.