The Giants

Hitch a ride on this one
The sleeve of my copy quotes Screen Daily as saying this film is "a joyous heartwarmer". I don't agree. Nor do I think it was intended to be. To me this film is a gentle affirmation of the quality and beauty of brotherhood in the face of adversity.

Yes, these three youths do some stupid things, and you might find yourself wondering why they are doing these things, what they're rebelling against, but it becomes clear in good time.

Zak (Zachary Chasseriaud) and Seth (Martin Nissen) are brothers, aged thirteen and fifteen respectively. They've been left at their dead grandfather's house, under their own cognizance, for the summer, and as the boredom and ennui gets to them, they get into adventures and misadventures, joined by fifteen year old Dany (Paul Bartel), a friend they make on the way.

Martin Nissen is perfect as the hopelessly out of his depth elder brother, and Zachary Chasseriaud is natural as the try anything boundary pushing thirteen year old...

Superb Belgian Film of three boys abandoned to their own devices.
This tells the story of two brothers, Zak and Seth the eldest is fifteen and his brother just thirteen and three quarters, as he is keen to point out. They are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house. Their mother has abandoned them for some selfish reason that we do not discover. What is clear is that they have very much been left to their own devices.

Whilst joy ridding (badly) in grand pops car they run into another young lad, this is Danny who comes from a dysfunctional family where his evil brother, paradoxically named `Angel' treats him like a punch bag. They smoke dope and steal food from their neighbours, but soon their money runs out and then they decided to make some money doing a ludicrous scheme. Everything inevitably back fires and they are left to their own devices which are limited to say the least. We follow them on their travels and it is a brilliant journey.

This is a very warm, often funny, sad and inspiring story. The boys...

My fault.
Hard for me to understand. Perhaps something got lost in the translation. I bought on a recommendation of a friend.

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