Arguably the most unique film to come out of any global corner in 2008, filmmaker Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir can be defined, just on its surface, as a head-shaking fugue between social documentary and digitally animated epic. But as you’d expect, given the inherent contradictions, it is significantly more: It’s Israeli, for one thing, and it’s a direct cinematic address… return to article
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