Les géants
Belgium/France, Luxembourg,
2011, 84 min
Shown in 2012
CREDITS
- dir
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Bouli Lanners
- prod
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Jacques-Henri Bronckart, Jani Thiltges, Olivier Bronckart, Carole Scotta, Simon Arnal
- scr
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Bouli Lanners, Elise Ancion
- cam
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Jean-Paul de Zaetijd
- editor
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Ewin Ryckaert
- mus
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The Bony King of Nowhere
- cast
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Zacharie Chasseriaud, Martin Nissen, Paul Bartel, Karim Leklou, Didier Toupy, Gwen Berrou, Marthe Keller
- source
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Kino Lorber Inc., 333 W 39th St, Ste 503,New York, NY 10018,gpalmucci@kino.com
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OTHER
Left by their mother to fend for themselves in their family’s rural Belgian home, brothers Seth, 15, and Zak, 13, have spent the summer getting by on dwindling funds and whatever food they can steal from their next-door neighbor’s cellar. When they meet 15-year-old Dany, he introduces them to a household of drug dealers, including his violently unhinged brother, who are looking for a place to grow their next marijuana crop. A sketchier group of malefactors would be hard to find, and the only thing Seth and Zak know about the group’s ringleader, Boeuf, is that he received his nickname in an abattoir where he once earned his living felling steers with a single blow. With their options narrowing, the brothers decide to strike a deal with Dany, as all three set out wandering through a wild, overgrown terrain virtually empty of adult supervision and the tone of their adventures shifts from innocent to antic to anxious and back again. Director Bouli Lanners favors beautifully expansive shots of the fields, woods and river where the boys kill time and grow slightly feral. The isolated landscape cleverly matches the sense of abandonment (but also freedom) that casts a shadow over all three boys.
—Lynn Rapoport
FACTOID #75
Italian screen siren and ’60s sex symbol Sophia Loren appeared in two films screened at the San Francisco International Film Festival: Ettore Scola’s A Special Day in 1977 and Francesco Rosi’s More Than a Miracle in 1981.
