Waltz With Bashir
Director: Ari Folman
Details: Israel/Germany/France / 90mins (TBC).
Shot in the rotoscoping style with the fractured plotline of a Terrence Malick film, Waltz With Bashir is an astonishing and brave piece of work. Writer-director Folman dots his flashback-heavy narrative with surreal imagery and real interviews (although some interviewee's voices are disguised by actors) that add to the dream-like description of the events. This can, however, put emotional distance between the viewer and the events that unfold but that is what Folman is trying to get at - he was there but can't root out his feelings about it. With its haunting visuals, investigations into suppressed memories, explorations of guilt and dealings with a difficult subject matter that some view contentious, this can be heavy going and hard to watch at times. Anything worth doing is always tough, though, and this is one of the most moving and powerful films to be released this year.
Review by Gavin Burke
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