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Fresh:118
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Average Rating:8.3/10
Consensus: A wholly innovative, original, and vital history lesson, with pioneering animation, Waltz With Bashir delivers its message about the Middle East in a mesmerizing fashion.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Dec 25, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $2,126,007
Synopsis: In reflecting upon his time spent in the Israeli army, filmmaker Ari Folman has produced WALTZ WITH BASHIR, a profoundly moving antiwar meditation that is equal parts personal memoir, history... [More]
Director: Ari Folman
Folman functions much like the therapist who carefully leads a patient through a minefield of difficult memories and emotions, bringing together pieces bit by bit until we're ready to confront and accept the truth.
Waltz With Bashir, a movie about memory, is as devious and subversive as it is brilliant and nightmarish.
Top CriticFolman uses striking, fluid, tactile imagery to illustrate the elastic nature of memory, ranging from snow and water to the feel of a tank navigating a city's narrow streets to more surreal, dreamlike images.
An investigative war documentary done as an animated feature is a pioneering concept, powerfully realised.
... you could call it an animated documentary by way of oral history, but it's best not to get caught up with labels concerning this film.
Although the film focuses on a particular conflict, it paints war in general as an absurd and primitive exercise that seems as inexplicable to its perpetrators as to its victims.
The film looks ripped straight from Folman’s psyche and placed in a theater near you.
Top CriticIn this animated 'leisure trip' back through an atrocity, the nightmarish hell of war assumes a new kind of reality. Devastatingly good.
As much as the film is about war, it’s also about the mutability and self-distortion of memory, and that makes animation the ideal medium to paint battle as the surreal experience it is.
An extraordinary film - a military sortie into the past in which both we and Folman are embedded like traumatised reporters.
Waltz With Bashir is a strange and wonderful hybrid.
By turns irritating, confounding, and endlessly fascinating.
A chilling Israeli animated documentary revolving around the 1982 massacre of 3000 unarmed Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
Waltz is a challenging film in the best sense of the word. It asks questions about the nature of memory and life during a time of war without providing any pat answers.
The aloof quality of the film gnaws away at you... it's a fluid, slippery thing that seems to be discovering itself as you watch it.
The film, devastating and distressing in equal measure, widens in meaning as it narrows in scope.
Top CriticAn experience that will haunt all who see it.
Waltz with Bashir is a brilliant piece of work and I never want to see it again.
a frothing pop nightmare
It’s messy and unusual, not always gratifying, sometimes frustrating, always compelling.
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