Waltz with Bashir
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| Directed by | Ari Folman |
| Produced by | Ari Folman Serge Lalou Gerhard Meixner Yael Nahlieli Roman Paul |
| Written by | Ari Folman |
| Music by | Max Richter |
| Editing by | Feller Nili |
| Distributed by | Bridgit Folman Film Gang Les Films d'Ici Razor Film Produktion GmbH |
| Release date(s) | 13 May 2008 (world premiere at Cannes) 5 June 2008 (premiere in Israel) |
| Running time | 90 min |
| Country |  Israel Germany France |
| Language | Hebrew German |
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Waltz with Bashir (Hebrew: ואלס עם באשיר) is a 2008 animated film directed by Ari Folman. Other credits include David Polonsky (Art Director), Yoni Goodman (Chief Animator) and Max Richter (score). It took four years to complete and is an international co-production between Israel, Germany and France. The film deals with the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, an unusually sombre subject for an animated film. The film's genre was called (first of its kind) "animated documentary". It entered the competition for the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, and received wide critical acclaim at its premiere, however lost in competition for the prizes despite predictions made during the festival week. The Guardian called it "an extraordinary, harrowing, provocative picture".[1]
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[edit] Summary
In 1982 Folman was an infantry soldier at the age of 20. In 2006 he meets with a friend from the army serivce period, who tells him of the nightmares connected to his experiences from the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find out that he does not remember a thing from the same period, but later the same evening he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre which he can not determine if really happened. In his memory he and his soldier friends are bathing at night at the seaside of Beirut to the light of flares descending over the city. Folman rushes off to meet another friend from his army service, who advises him to discuss it with other people who were there with him in Beirut in order to understand what happened there and to relive his own memory. The film follows Folman in his conversations with friends, a psychologist and the reporter Ron Ben-Yishai which was in Beirut in the same time.
[edit] The title
The movie takes its title from a scene in which one of the interviewees, the commander of Folman's infantry unit at the time of the film's events, grabs a heavy machine gun and "dances an insane waltz" amid heavy enemy fire, between walls hung with posters of Bashir Gemayel.
[edit] Style
The film is exceptional in it being a documentary movie made by the means of animation. The film combines classical music, rock music, realistic graphics and surrealistic scenes together with illustrations similar to comics. Almost all the film was made by means of animation, except a for short segment at the end of the film which shows the documented results of the Sabra and Shatila massacre in a news archive footage.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Brooks, Xan (2008-05-15). Bring on the light relief. Cannes diary. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
[edit] External links
- Official website of Waltz with Bashir. Retrieved on 2008-05-15.
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