{"id":19561,"date":"2012-02-10T13:38:43","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T21:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19561"},"modified":"2012-02-10T13:44:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T21:44:21","slug":"les-geants-bouli-lanners-2011-belgium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=19561","title":{"rendered":"Les G\u00e9ants (Bouli Lanners, 2011): Belgium"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The film The Giants was not the best film I saw at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. \u00a0The film did have several nice long shots and interesting locations but to me it seemed boring. \u00a0I am not sure what the target audience is for this film, Les Geants had too much cursing and drugs to be targeted at the age the boys in the film are (15 year old and 13 year old). \u00a0I’m 20 felt the story went to slow with lacking of reason and story. \u00a0There were humorous moments and very real moments but overall the film was boring and not very interesting.<\/p>\n

The Giants played at the Santa Barbara film festival. \u00a0The director,\u00a0Bouli Lanners, did a really great job directing these young actors. \u00a0The acting seemed very\u00a0natural\u00a0and I was very impressed with there skills. \u00a0Zacharie Chasseriaud who played Zak, the youngest of the group, 13 & 3\/4, had the best performance. \u00a0He was very\u00a0believable\u00a0in all of his face\u00a0expressions\u00a0and body language. \u00a0The character Angle was very easy to love to hate. \u00a0The supporting woman’s character was very funny and brought a good laugh every time she was on the screen. \u00a0Overall the acting was my\u00a0favored\u00a0element of the film.<\/p>\n

The film The Giants takes place in a small town. \u00a0The story is about two young boys who are staying at there recently\u00a0deceased\u00a0grandfather. \u00a0The boys quickly run into another young boy who’s home life is just as bad as theirs, if not worse. \u00a0We begin to discover that the boys mother is not around and doesn’t want to be. \u00a0They act as young boys with no supervision do, smoking pot and drinking alcohol. \u00a0The boys desitions threw out the story only get them into more trouble while the audience wants to yell “NO THAT’S A BAD IDEA!”. \u00a0 \u00a0The story was not very interesting and the end left me asking myself “so… what happened to them?”. \u00a0I am not a big fan of those sort of films that leave the ending up to the \u00a0audience but hey that’s just me.<\/p>\n

The most significant aspects of the film The Giants was the acting and the great use of long pan shots on beautiful landscapes. \u00a0The film was shot in\u00a0Belgium witch has some amazing buildings and roads and\u00a0fields\u00a0and all sorts of very cool places. \u00a0The acting was the most entertaining aspect of the movie for me because I felt like I was in the room goofing around with these kids. \u00a0The acting skills of these boys really impressed me and\u00a0kept\u00a0me from falling asleep.<\/p>\n

The film The Giants is\u00a0definitely\u00a0not the best film I’ve ever seen but if you like those very real coming to age films this may be one you would want to check out. \u00a0If your a young aspiring actor I would\u00a0definitely\u00a0recommend\u00a0watching it just for the acting. \u00a0This was not my type of movie but I’m sure others can enjoy it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The film The Giants was not the best film I saw at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. \u00a0The film did have several nice long shots and interesting locations but to me it seemed boring. \u00a0I am not sure what the target audience is for this film, Les Geants had too much cursing and drugs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films","category-santa-barbara-film-festival-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}