Giants Being lonely

This year again, the Deauville American Film Festival will have allowed us to discover new directors, certainly with more or less convincing films, and the first film of Giants Being lonely by Grear Patterson, if not totally convincing, benefits from a beautiful photography and gives a fair look at the current American society. Set in a small town in the southern United States, Giants Being lonely presents a senior class in which young people are trying to find a purpose in life. Between outings, first dates, discovering love and baseball games, friendships are made and broken.

If Giants Being lonely certainly does not have a sufficiently elaborated script, we must however recognize a great care taken as much to its realization but especially to its photography which certainly makes it an interesting film to discover and especially once again that the independent American cinema allows young American directors to express themselves. Once again, how not to see in this film a way for the director to exorcise his own demons and to draw inspiration from his past to let his imagination run wild and deliver us an original film if not completely successful.

While the pandemic seems to have totally changed the situation, we can only see at this moment the emergence of an independent American cinema that does not require pharaonic budgets to be creative and original. Perfectly performed by non-professional actors, Giants Being lonely will not remain in our memories but will be watched as quickly as it is forgotten.

Giants Being Lonely
Directed by Grear Patterson
Produced by Jake Axelbank, Avivit Bar-Yosef, Eleonore Hendricks
Screenplay by Grear Patterson, Sam Stillman
Starring Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin, Gabe Fazio, Amalia Culp, Alejandro Castro, Larry Miller, Stella Schnabel
Music by Ben Morsberger
Edited by Ismael de Diego, Olmo Schnabel
Release date: September 1, 2019 (Italy)
Running time: 78mns

Seen on September 8, 2020 at the Centre International de Deauville

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