Waltz With Bashir – 2008

• 2015/10/11

How do you make a documentary about something as abstract and subjective as memory, particularly with as politically thorny a context as the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon? In the groundbreaking Waltz With Bashir, Ari Folman takes us through an animated journey through war trauma and the unreliability of memory in times of conflict, all to the haunted tune Max Richter’s mournful score. It’s a daring and rewarding work, and when, towards the end, real footage finally intrudes, uncommented and raw, it delivers a shocking, memorable payload. Unmissable!