Front Page   

Golden Palm for 'Elephant'

CANNES May 25. Gus Van Sant's film `Elephant,' about a high school shooting in America, won the top prize, the Golden Palm, at the Cannes Film Festival today.

The director cast real high school students, not professional actors, to star in the film, and asked them to improvise their lines. The movie starts out showing an ordinary day at school that turns to tragedy when two students go on a shooting spree in the hallways.

Van Sant, best known for ``Good Will Hunting,'' also won the prize for best director. — AP

Printer friendly page  
Send this article to Friends by E-Mail

Front Page

News: Front Page | National | Southern States | Other States | International | Opinion | Business | Sport | Miscellaneous |
Advts: Classifieds | Employment | Obituary |

Stories in this Section

• Israel approves plan for Palestinian State by 2005
• Pak. meet today to discuss MFN status to India
• Dialogue only solution, says Kasuri
• Development will be poll plank: Advani
• CISF constable remanded
• Homicide case against Senegal envoy's son
• IBM staffer detained in Malaysia
• Policeman kills family, himself
• Bomb hoax delays train
• Award for Amitabh
• Inflation falls
• Golden Palm for 'Elephant'

Copyright © 2003, The Hindu. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu