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School shooting film takes top prize at Cannes
By Hugh Davies in Cannes
(Filed: 26/05/2003)
A film that climaxes in a massacre at a school in America won the Palme d"Or at the Cannes Film Festival last night.
Gus Van Sant, the director of Elephant, said his inspiration was a 1989 BBC film by the late Alan Clarke, also called Elephant, that depicted Northern Ireland"s sectarian violence as a relentless, anonymous march of murders.
Diificult to ignore: Gus Van Sant with the coveted Palme d"Or
The title stemmed from the belief that the problem was as difficult to ignore as an elephant in the living room.
Van Sant was returning to the same troubling territory as last year"s much-praised Cannes film, Michael Moore"s Bowling for Columbine, which used the eponymous high school shooting as a paradigm for the moral malaise gripping America.
Elephant features two young conspirators, dressed to kill and laden with guns and explosives.
They watch a television documentary on Hitler, have a shower together in advance of the killing spree and their thoughts include the chilling words that "most importantly" they want to "have fun".
The music of Beethoven is used to build the tension as, for three quarters of the film, children are shown in classes, playing football, gossiping and socialising.
The film was shot at a school in Portland, Oregon. There are only three professional actors in the cast, all in adult roles.
Unlike Moore"s film, Elephant makes no attempt to solve the riddle of school violence.
Van Sant, who made Good Will Hunting, Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho, said: "We didn"t want to explain anything. As soon as you explain one thing, there are five other possibilities that are somehow negated.
"There was also the chance that you may be attempting to find an explanation for something that doesn"t necessarily have one."
Dany Wolf, the producer, said: "The concept is that we don"t know what the dynamic is between these murderous kids. The film deals with the events, not the causes.
"Usually when films deal with such subjects, they tend to preach, they damn the events or the people. This film doesn"t push the audience in that direction. So it might actually challenge them."
Diane Keaton, the Oscar-winning actress who was an executive producer, said: "It really makes me think about my responsibilities as an adult, to try and understand what"s going on with young people.
"What"s striking is that it is such a pure piece. Gus didn"t try to make it anything other that what he felt high school was for young adults. You experience what it"s like for them."
Posted by : Phoenix , Date : 2003-05-26 , Time : 22:43:00 , From IP : 172.29.3.218
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