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Waltz with Bashir

2008 · 90 min

A haunting, dreamlike descent into buried memory, blending surreal animation with raw archival footage to confront the psychological wreckage of war.

Tagline: One man's journey to uncover his past.
Overview: A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.
How it feels: Dark, melancholic, eerie and tense. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Memory, war, trauma, guilt
Content: Strong violence. Mild gore, sexual content and language.
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Tone: darkstrength 3 of 3
melancholicstrength 3 of 3
eeriestrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: memory
war
trauma
guilt
identity
Places: big city
military
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
animated
documentary
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language mild
Violence strong
Sex mild

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Genres: animation, documentary, drama, war
Directed by: Ari Folman
Written by: Ari Folman
Starring: Ari Folman, Mickey Leon, Ori Sivan, Yehezkel Lazarov, Ronny Dayag, Shmuel Frenkel, Zahava Solomon, Ron Ben-Yishai
Music: Max Richter
Runtime: 90 min
Country: Australia, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, United States of America
Languages: Hebrew, Arabic, German, English