At Cannes, Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's animated feature documentary "Waltz with Bashir" explores the traumatic events Israeli soldiers experienced from the 1982 Israeli incursion in Lebanon. The film reveals the dramatic events of the invasion, particularly the Christian Phalangist militia's massacre of Palestinians at refugee camps in Sabra and Shatila in front of Israeli troops.
Folman's autobiographical film inspired from his repressed recollections of his war-time youth pieces together a mosaic of collective memories from his army buddies to shape the film's narrative. Folman says that "animation was the only way to tell this story; I was sure of that." "Waltz with Bashir", like Marjane Satrapi's film adaptation of her illustrated novels about growing up in Tehran and later in Vienna, captures a coming-of-age story on the cusp of pivotal change on the world's stage.
Read more in Joan Dupont's essay on Ari Folman's film screened at Cannes 2008 published in the International Herald Tribune (19 May 2008).
Folman's autobiographical film inspired from his repressed recollections of his war-time youth pieces together a mosaic of collective memories from his army buddies to shape the film's narrative. Folman says that "animation was the only way to tell this story; I was sure of that." "Waltz with Bashir", like Marjane Satrapi's film adaptation of her illustrated novels about growing up in Tehran and later in Vienna, captures a coming-of-age story on the cusp of pivotal change on the world's stage.
Read more in Joan Dupont's essay on Ari Folman's film screened at Cannes 2008 published in the International Herald Tribune (19 May 2008).
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