Director: Bouli Lanners.\u00a0 Belgium, 2011. 84 minutes.\u00a0 Cert: CLUB.\u00a0 Language: French (subtitled).<\/p>\n
Winner – CICAE Award, Cannes Film Festival 2011<\/em><\/p>\n “a lovely drunken roll of a\u00a0movie, brightly played by its adolescent cast, luxuriating in a Belgian countryside of\u00a0whispering grass and fairytale forests”<\/em> – The Guardian<\/p>\n This hilarious coming-of-age story takes its cues from Mark Twain in exploring uncharted adolescent adventure. \u00a0Two teenage brothers expect yet another dull summer, until\u00a0 Danny arrives and they begin the most perilous and greatest journey of their lives.<\/p>\n Seth and Zak and their tag-along friend navigate a summer by themselves in an abandoned country cottage. As they scavenge for food, hunt for pot and pursue harebrained schemes to make money, they find their bravado repeatedly punctured by the rigours of an adult world they cannot comprehend.<\/p>\n Twain’s Huckleberry Finn take-off is transplanted to the actor-turned-director’s native Belgian countryside.\u00a0 Shot with a painter’s eye for the lushly wooded landscape, and filled with Bouli Lanners’ bittersweet humour and feel for the rhythms of working class life,\u00a0<\/em>THE GIANTS <\/em>is a funny yet melancholic ode to the idleness, adventures and fears of adolescence.<\/p>\n Read The Guardian review.<\/a><\/p>\n Read The Irish Times review.<\/a><\/p>\n Read The Hollywood Reporter’s review from Cannes.<\/a><\/p>\n