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, the film adopts a fly-on-the-wall approach that surveys the various cliques and social strata of the school in a documentary-like way. The film marks a return for Van Sant to the low-key style of his early independent films.