2008 · animation · documentary · war
Waltz with Bashir
Directed by Ari Folman1h 30m2008
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.
Our read: Waltz with Bashir (2008) reads as a heavy, measured, inventive animation · documentary · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured animation / documentary, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- inventive
- bleak
- signature
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