Elephant [VHS]

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starring: Elias McConnell, John Robinson, Alex Frost, Eric Deulen, Jordan Taylor
directed by: Gus Van Sant

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Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780783128559
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 078312855X
Label: Hbo Home Video
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageGermanOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Hbo Home Video
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Hbo Home Video
Release Date: May 04, 2004
Running Time: 81 minutes
Studio: Hbo Home Video

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Editorial Review:

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Winner of the Palme d'Or and Best Director prizes at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, Gus Van Sant's (Good Will Hunting, Finding Forrester) Elephant takes us inside an American high school on one, single ordinary day that very rapidly turns tragic. Elephant demonstrates that high school life is a complex landscape where the vitality and beauty of young lives can shift from light to darkness with surreal speed. It's an ordinary high school day. Except that it's not.

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Elephant, the elegant and unsettling movie from Gus Van Sant (My Own Private Idaho, Good Will Hunting), depicts students at a high school before and during a harrowing, Columbine-style shooting. The movie follows one young boy who takes over the wheel from his drunken dad while returning from lunch, then loops back in time and follows another student who crosses paths with the first, then loops back and follows another--all captured in long, unedited tracking shots that are serene and unhurried, even when two boys in camouflage gear, carrying heavy bags, arrive at the school and begin shooting. Elephant doesn't attempt to explain their behavior; it simply places the audience back in the brief yet interminable window of adolescence, when life is trivial and painfully important at the same time. Your reaction to Elephant will depend as much on your life experiences as anything in the movie itself. --Bret Fetzer

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