Elephant DVD (2004) Alex Frost, van Sant (DIR) cert 15 FREE Shipping, Save £s

Title: Elephant Leading Actor: Alex Frost Duration: 80 mins Format: DVD / Normal Type: DVD Studio / Publisher: Elevation Sales UK Release Date: 26 Jul 2004

Winner of the Palme D'Or Award at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival, this controversial film by Gus van Sant portrays two days in the life of a suburban American high school that is set to become the scene of a Columbine-style massacre. Semi-improvised, using unknown teenagers rather than professional actors, the film adopts a fly-on-the-wall approach that surveys the various cliques and social strata of the school in a non-judgmental, documentary-like way. Against this background, two misfit friends, Eric (Eric Deulen) and Alex (Alex Frost), who spend their free-time collecting Nazi iconography and playing ultra-violent video games, are coolly planning an armed ambush on the school, drawing working diagrams of the school refectory during study period and buying weapons over the Internet. The film marks a return for Van Sant to the low-key style of his early independent films.