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Waltz with Bashir

BAFICI 2009
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Year:

2008
Original Title:

Waltz with Bashir
País:

Israel 
Director:

Ari Folman
Color:

Color
Format:

35 mm
Duration:

90 min
Cast:
  • Ron Ben-Yishai, Ronny Dayag, Ari Folman
Production:
  • GUIÓN: Ari Folman
  • MONTAJE: Feller Nili
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Ari Folman, Serge Lalou, Roman Paul

Synopsis

Ari Folman is responsible for the most potent and unusual film of the season: a political-animated-personal diary (and many other things) documentary about the war on Lebanon, most specifically on the Sabra and Chatila massacres from 1982. Waltz With Bashir wasn’t born as a graphic novel, but is related to the genre and the power of masterworks like Maus (Art Spiegelman) or Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi), because the portrayal of horror never ceases to have the body of its author at its service, as prism, as guarantee. Folman tries to recover numb memories from that war, when he was a 19-year-old Israeli soldier. Documentary, then, and film about memory (personal or collective), and also a heartrending tale with a narrative of dream-like overtones and a search for many lost focuses and certainties. An animated film about memory? An essay on interchangeable calendars? A double feature of atrocities? As Spanish critic Jaime Pena summarized in Cahiers du cinéma Spain: “Beirut, 1982; Gaza Strip, 2009.”