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Nebs
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 Vals Im Bashir [Waltz with Bashir] Waltz with Bashir Quote: Waltz with Bashir (Hebrew: ואלס עם באשיר, translit. Vals Im Bashir) is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War.
This film and $9.99, also released in 2008, are the first Israeli animated feature-length films released in movie theaters since Alina and Yoram Gross's Ba'al Hahalomot (1962). Waltz with Bashir premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival where it entered the competition for the Palme d'Or, and since then has won and been nominated for many additional important awards while receiving wide acclaim from critics. It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, an NSFC Award for Best Film, a César Award for Best Foreign Film and an IDA Award for Feature Documentary, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language and an Annie Award for Best Animated Feature.
Despite the popularity of the film and success of private screenings, it is offically banned in Lebanon.
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Bradley Witherberry
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Re: Waltz with Bashir Where's da reviews? How come no one's going to see this fine film?!?!? Wake up KJer's!!!!!!
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JURiNG
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Re: Waltz with Bashir You talk like it's showing everywhere..
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JURiNG
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Re: Waltz with Bashir  AGA!! (Absolutely Gorgeously Amazing) Best film of the year. More later, maybe. _________________
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Loyal
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Re: Waltz with Bashir AH, now I need to see it.
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Groaning
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Re: Waltz with Bashir This blew me away. Visually the most stunning film of the year.
The Waltz scene is iconic. The themes of war, forgetting and guilt are greatly handeled.
God, this was good. A+
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JURiNG
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Re: Waltz with Bashir you forgot to mention the score and all musics in this film..
just.. 'oh my god, this is great!'
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Re: Waltz with Bashir Yeah, it was really good. Holy shit...and the ending. Switching to "actual" documentary footage after all that was a brilliant move, and really adds weight to preceding 80 minutes of imagery.
Man oh man there were some moments in there that I doubt will ever leave me.
2008's best animated foreign realist surrealist documentary war movie.
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Re: Waltz with Bashir 9/10 -> A-
Terrific doc. The most outstanding technical thing - music. But I'm too tired to write more about it. Not the best docu of the year, but definitely the most interesting one from the technical aspect and for the fact that it's animated.
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trixster
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Re: Waltz with Bashir Holy amazing.
It's all too easy to compare this to Persepolis, and while I suppose the association is apt, there's no question for me which is the better film. While the beautifully expressive animation in both is equally stunning, it's the manner in which it is used that separates it for me. Don't get me wrong - I like Persepolis a lot - but it just pales in comparison to this film. In fact, most movies do.
It's not just that it's a surrealist animated documentary. It's not just that it's simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious. It's not just that it combines so many different filmic forms into one kaleidoscopic montage of pure cinema. It's not just that it's a cacophony of voices, meanings, symbols, feelings. It's all of those things. And more.
This is gradually devolving into a rambling collection of adjectives and superlatives, so I'll stop before I go too far. Suffice to say, I was sure that no film would touch My Winnipeg at the top of my yearly list. But damned if this didn't come close. Truly remarkable.
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Re: Waltz with Bashir surreal and breathtaking. tackles the politics of memory & legitimacy in a haunting way - unlike anything ive seen before.
2008's best? top's milk, certainly.
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MovieDude
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Re: Waltz with Bashir As said, it has a very strong argument for being the best of 2008. What film was as visually dynamic, truth telling and unique in it's storytelling? It doesn't hurt that this is an anti-war film by an Israeli, an oxymoron in many people's mind. You simply couldn't tell this story as a live action documentary, nor as an entirely fictional movie. Like Man on Wire, it uses all the tricks in the book to absolutely absorb the audience, viscerally and emotionally. Without demonizing (or championing) either side of an intensely complicated issue, it presents many people's stories of one event with a mercurial talent, never demanding the audience comes to a single conclusion. If only more war films could say the same!
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Johnny Dollar
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Re: Vals Im Bashir [Waltz with Bashir] In lieu of any kind of aesthetic defense or critique, I'll just say:
holy fuck, this was boring.
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