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Winner of the Palme dOr and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sants realistic drama ELEPHANT takes us inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. The story unfolds, filled with class work, football, gossip and socializing. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance, allowing us to see them as they are. With each student we see high school through a different experience, a new lens. These experiences range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
ELEPHANT demonstrates that high school life is a comple
Winner of the Palme dOr and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sants realistic drama ELEPHANT takes us inside an American high school on one single, ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. The story unfolds, filled with class work, football, gossip and socializing. It observes the comings and goings of its characters from a safe distance, allowing us to see them as they are. With each student we see high school through a different experience, a new lens. These experiences range from friendly and innocent to traumatic and deeply disturbing.
ELEPHANT demonstrates that high school life is a complex landscape where the vitality and beauty of young lives can sift from light to darkness with surreal speed. Its an ordinary high school day. Except that its not.
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Release date: 2 November 2009
EAN: 0026359238826 UPC: 026359238826
Tags: High School (1), Gayness (1), Achool (1), Rampage (1), Camera (1), Bullying (1), Based On True Story (1), Angst (1), School Shooting (1), True Story (1), Teen (1), Drama (1), Suicide (1), Teenage (1), Murder (1), Violence (1), Friendship (1), Crime (1), Revenge (1), Guns (1)
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