Elephant

4.00
    Elephant
    2003

    Synopsis

    Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent.

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    Cast

    • Alex FrostAlex
    • Eric DeulenEric
    • John RobinsonJohn McFarland
    • Elias McConnellElias
    • Jordan TaylorJordan
    • Carrie FinkleaCarrie
    • Nicole GeorgeNicole
    • Brittany MountainBrittany
    • Alicia MilesAcadia
    • Kristen HicksMichelle

    Recommandations

    • 100

      Premiere

      I haven't been crazy about a lot of Van Sant's recent work, but what he does here is simply astonishing. [November 2003, p. 25]
    • 100

      Christian Science Monitor

      Van Sant gives no pat or easy answers. Instead he makes us squirm, worry, and think. That's why Elephant is a must-see movie.
    • 88

      Rolling Stone

      To those who see no purpose to this film, I say the purpose is learning not to turn a blind eye. The unique and unforgettable Elephant keeps its eyes wide open.
    • 80

      The A.V. Club

      Has a gentle, hypnotic tone that's insistently sweet and elegiac, in spite of the horrors that overwhelm the frame. In its juxtaposition of the serene and the violent, the beautiful and the brutal, the film achieves a balance that's exquisitely judged, tiptoeing artfully through a cultural minefield.
    • 75

      Entertainment Weekly

      Beauty competes with vacuity in Elephant, and for a good stretch of writer-director Gus Van Sant's maddeningly passive ode to high school innocence and Columbine-age youthful evil, beauty wins.
    • 70

      Village Voice

      Flagrantly artistic and transfixed by its own enigma, Elephant is strongest on evoking a succession of specific, "empty" moments and weakest on motivation.
    • 60

      The New Yorker

      In the end, this odd, beautiful movie is remote and more suggestive than satisfying--a coolly impassive film about catastrophe made at a time when some of us might prefer an attempt at explanation. And yet Elephant is something to see. [27 October 2003, p. 112]
    • 50

      New York Magazine (Vulture)

      It’s just another example of art-house hokey-pokey. Amazingly, this film won both the Palme d’Or and Best Director Award at Cannes, beating out, among others, "Mystic River."

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