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Waltz with Bashir (Hebrew: ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli adult animated war docudrama film written, produced, and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman's search for lost memories of his experience as a soldier during the 1982 Lebanon War and the Sabra and Shatila massacre.
Dec 10, 2010 · This paper explores the relationship between memory, trauma and ethics in the Israeli war film Waltz with Bashir (Ari Folman, 2008). I argue that Waltz with Bashir highlights a traumatic rupture between history and memory, and points to the decline of national collective memory in Israel.
- Raz Yosef
- 2010
Dec 24, 2008 · Ari Folman's animated Waltz With Bashir reconstructs the director's suppressed memories of a 1982 battle — and a massacre. Ari Folman/David Polonsky/Sony Pictures Classics. Waltz with...
Mar 1, 2009 · The “Waltz with Bashir” Two-Step. A vivid film fails to grapple with the torturous complexities of the 1982 Lebanon war. by Hillel Halkin. On June 6, 1982, following the collapse of a year-long truce between Israel and the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Israeli army invaded a Lebanon torn by years of civil war.
Jun 27, 2024 · Rather, it is a treatise on memory and psychological survival through predominantly neurotic defence mechanisms. Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir is an animated documentary about the 1982 Lebanon War through the eyes of Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) veterans.
- Jeremy Rampling
- 2015
Destabilizing perspective, subtly loosening flesh from muscle and bone, the animation suggests the hallucinatory experience of war as powerfully as any film ever has—including Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979).
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Dec 29, 2008 · The result is Waltz with Bashir, a Citizen Kane-style recounting of Folman's search and what he discovered. The animated feature is replete with phantasmagorical imagery and surreal dream sequences; the film opens with an unsettling depiction of his friend's canine nightmare.
