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Waltz with Bashir. By Ari Folman Israel, 2008 Hand-Drawn and Adobe Flash 86 min. R Rated . Waltz with Bashir. “A wholly innovative, original, and vital history lesson, with pioneering animation, Waltz With Bashir delivers its message about the Middle East in a mesmerizing fashion. ”.
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Waltz with Bashir By Ari Folman Israel, 2008 Hand-Drawn and Adobe Flash 86 min. R Rated
Waltz with Bashir • “A wholly innovative, original, and vital history lesson, with pioneering animation, Waltz With Bashir delivers its message about the Middle East in a mesmerizing fashion.”
Waltz with Bashir • A personal, heart-wrenching “confessional” • Ground-breaking animation shows “hollowness” of characters • Plot illustrates the fallibility of memory
Waltz with bashir • Won Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, a Cesar Award for Best Foreign Film and a host of others • Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film • On many “Best of” Lists
Waltz with bashir • Highly controversial film • Did not do well at the box office in Israel • Banned in Lebanon • The carefully selected soundtrack reinforces central messages by employing jarringly inappropriate music
Waltz with Bashir • Took four years to complete • Uses a ground-breaking animation technique, invented by Yori Goodman, that combines hand-drawn animation with Adobe Flash • Each drawing sliced into hundreds of pieces moved in relation to each other for movement illusion • Shot as video, transferred to storyboard, then 2,300 original illustrations drawn based on the storyboard then Flash applied
Waltz with Bashir • Title taken from a scene in the movie where a character “dances an insane dance,” while under fire, with a machine gun
Waltz with Bashir • Animatics (after the film)