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TIFF 2009 Day 6: Adrian Biniez’s Gigante

If it weren’t for a fair number of comical elements, Gigante would be a creepy proposition. Adrian Biniez’s debut film, a low-budget minimalist offering in the tradition of the film’s from his fellow filmmakers from Uruguay, is a fairly unassuming offering that works with one basic premise.

Eric Lavallée

Published on September 18, 2009

If it weren’t for a fair number of comical elements, Gigante would be a creepy proposition. Adrian Biniez’s debut film, a low-budget minimalist offering in the tradition of the film’s from his fellow filmmakers from Uruguay, is a fairly unassuming offering that works with one basic premise. Having caught a public screening of the Berlin film festival winner, the filmmaker refers to his debut as a healthy form of stalking. Film Movement bought the rights a while back so we should be seeing this sometime soon. Full reviewing coming soon.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).