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| Paranoid Park |
Van Sant's latest film garnered the Anniversary Prize at the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007.
Set in Portland, Oregon - Van Sant's adopted hometown and frequent setting for his films -
Paranoid Park follows Alex (Gabe Nevins), a slow-burn teen whose uneventful life takes a dramatic turn after a visit to a local skate park.
Van Sant's stylistic preoccupation with layered sound and visual design finds full expression in this film at once artfully constructed and precisely calibrated.
"Despite its formal experimentation and its melancholy tone, this is also an emotionally direct, frequently very funny exploration of the effects of a single unimaginable disaster upon a single ordinary life"
Edinburgh Film Festival. Australian premiere.
