It’s immediate and specific and painful and impressive.
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RogerEbert.comNell Minow
RogerEbert.comNell Minow
Familiar, even universal issues of growing up, identity, and intimacy are presented with a lyrical, dreamlike tone.
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Paste MagazineNatalia Keogan
Paste MagazineNatalia Keogan
While this suspension of narrative convention is a welcome deviation from the cut-and-dry formula of many coming-of-age films, Giants Being Lonely stops just short of actually saying something salient.
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Everything is subtext, as scenes float by with little grounding or purpose outside of compositional beauty.
Giants Being Lonely may not add much to the landscape of coming-of-age dramas, yet the preciseness of its impressionism results in a striking atmosphere of hormones and vulnerability.
Even when it grows too enamored of its own lyrical driftiness, there’s undeniable skill in Patterson’s use of space, color and sound. The movie might have worked as a mood piece; at times it almost does.
Nothing concrete emerges from this haze of oblique editing and barely written scenes, acted by cast members who are not up to making the dialogue sound convincing or filling the voids left in place of their characters.