Daily Plastic: Waltz with Bashir

Movie	Our Take	Other Takes
Waltz with Bashir Trailer . IMDB	The film is also an elegant anti-war film, the kind that I find a little unsettling...But the film's final minutes, literally the last hundred seconds or so — when the massacre comes suddenly into view like a reclaimed memory — lift the veil, pierce the heart, and temper most of my reservations. Robert Davis Daily Plastic	Waltz with Bashir moves at a breathless pace from one evocative image to the next: ferocious, rabid dogs race down city streets; nude soldiers emerge from the sea, rifles in hand; a man drifts along the water, buoyed by a large nude woman who cradles him like a massive life raft; a soldier dances in a street through a hail of bullets, accompanied by a Chopin waltz. Folman's gorgeous imagery, often plucked from recollections of dreams, runs the risk of aestheticizing historical tragedy, mining a massacre for pretty pictures set to a self-consciously eclectic soundtrack. In execution, though, his technique ends up foregrounding the subjectivity of his imagery. Chris Wisniewski Reverse Shot An absolute stunner, a feature-length animated documentary, from Israel, in which the force of moving drawings amplifies eerily powerful accounts of war, shaky remembrance and rock-solid repression. Joe Morgenstern Wall Street Journal The results, in my judgment, are stunning. I first saw Waltz With Bashir right after getting off the plane at Cannes last spring, and at certain moments during the film I wondered whether I had myself fallen asleep and was dreaming its hellish, haunted images. Andrew O'Hehir Salon

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