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Ari Folman, Dror Harazi, Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Yehezkel Lazarov
Documents the filmmaker's journey toward discovering the truth about an Israeli Army mission he participated in during the first Lebanon War of the early 1980s that left him with a loss of memory abou...( read more
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Id: 10921323
An animated documentary account of the Israeli intervention of '82 into the Lebanese Civil War in support of the President, Bashir Gemayel. It's both visually and acoustically beautiful with nice 3D effects combined with Max Richter's haunting tracks. Uniquely, by way of its anim...( read more)
"Do you ever have flashbacks from Lebanon?"
"No. No, not really."
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict....( read more)
A fantastic film with amazing animation. This could have been an interesting documentary but instead, Folman had the insight and the originality to produce what is one of the truly brilliant contemporary films of the last few years. Highly recommended!
Direct from Israel, a powerful political film that's artfully animated. My only gripe is that it's painfully slow in pacing, as if director Ari Folman was trying to stretch sixty minutes of material into an hour and a half.
Only my second foriegn film I have ever watched and what an experience. Could have been a perfect score but I found the second act was a bit slow. The beginning hooked me. The art and visuals were tremendous and the music score was amazing. The ending was the most dramaric and br...( read more)
Waltz with Bashir is a movie-like documentary that follows Ari Folman through his journey to regain the memories from the 1982 Israel-Lebanon War. It is a captivating view from a regular soldier of the occupying country. After meeting with an old friend that tells Ari about his m...( read more)
A cinematic accomplishment... although i wouldn't want to watch it again because it's really depressing
The movie is about the 1982 Israeli war in Lebanon, it is about PTSD, about soldiers and their being wounded for the rest of their lives. The movie remided me of too much bad memories but I felt somehow relieved watching it. A very good movie.
A truly orignal piece of work: an animated documentary of the Lebanon war in '82. The film gives no background and not much of an explanation, but tells the stories of individuals that took part in it. Fascinating, with a shocking last two minutes.
