The Giants of Easter Island

Like the title of Reshef Levi's "Lost Islands," Kosashvili's "Giants of Easter Island" doesn't tell much about the movie but instead is the name of an item of mass-marketed escapism that captures the interest of the juvenile characters, whose world from day to day contains nothing unfamiliar. Circumscribed though it is, though, that world presents them with enormous conflicts between fear, loyalty, shame, sexual (or pre-sexual) attraction-- very big quandaries, and the next generation upward in the movie is, if anything, less mature about handling them. Lest the movie go spinning off in all directions, there is a wise father who serves as fulcrum-- but the movie has been criticized as fragmented nonetheless. I'd say keep your eye on the plot thread about the kids, be sure you remember which is which, and enjoy the occasional burst of (former Soviet) Georgian music.