Waltz with Bashir

2008 [HEBREW]

Action / Animation / Biography / Documentary / Drama / History / Mystery / War

22
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 90% · 152 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 90% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 8.0/10 10 62383 62.4K

israeli–palestinian conflict israel palestinian-israeli conflict palestine middle east nightmare

Plot summary

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.

Director

Ari Folman Photo
Ari Folman

Top cast

Mickey Leon Photo
Mickey Leon as Boaz Rein-Buskila
Ari Folman Photo
Ari Folman as Self
Ori Sivan Photo
Ori Sivan as Self - Interviewee
Ronny Dayag Photo
Ronny Dayag as Self - Interviewee
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
829.37 MB
1280*714
Hebrew 2.0
NR
Subtitles il  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 7
1.66 GB
1920*1072
Hebrew 5.1
NR
Subtitles il  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 34

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by unreadpages 9 / 10

A kick in the guts for the price of a movie ticket

If you're expecting the standard action anime think again. Starting with the pack of snarling rampaging dogs that opens the action, this is one of the most powerful films I've seen, quite shocking, and the technical switch to real news footage at the end brought me as close as I've ever been to throwing up in a movie theatre. You'll see what I mean. The surrealistic power of animation is fully exploited in the dream sequences and flashbacks of this story which at one level is a psychological exploration of traumatic memory. But the film goes far beyond the personal and delves into a particularly nasty few days of the Israeli occupation of Beirut in 1982 involving an unholy collusion with, as I said, gut-wrenching results for humanity.Will this win further enemies for Israel as one of the reviewers said? I hope not, and the courage of the film's official Israeli backers is appreciated. What the film shows is that we all, Nazi and Jew, Muslim and Christian, smart and stupid, are capable of some pretty inhuman behaviour if we allow ourselves.
Reviewed by nyshrink 9 / 10

Hard-Hitting Film

This film exists on several levels. It is partly a film about combat trauma, memory and repression, partly about the specifics of Israel's role in the Lebanese civil war, and partly about war in general as experienced by soldiers. It was cleverly constructed, moving back and forth from the middle-aged protagonist and his search for his lost memories via contacting old comrades, and the depiction of the actual events during the time of his and their youth. The film is mostly done in animation and uses animation in a very effective way.I do not believe it is at all relevant what someone's political opinions are in terms of appreciating this film. The film reveals truth through taking the viewer on a journey to the past through the memories of people who witnessed the worst days of the conflict.
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