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Waltz with Bashir
A Lebanon War Story
Folman, Ari
Polonsky, David
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
Unlike any other book on war, a graphic novel about one Israeli soldiers time in Beirut during the massacres at Sabra and ShatilaOne night in Beirut in September 1982, while Israeli soldiers secured the area, a Christian militia invaded the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila and massacred three thousand Palestinians. Ari Folman was one of those Israeli soldiers, but for more than twenty years he remembered nothing of that night. Then came a friends disturbing dream and with it Folmans need to excavate the truth of the war in Lebanon and answer the crucial question: What was he doing during the hours of slaughter at Sabra and Shatila?Stunningly original in form, Waltz with Bashir follows Folmans journey deep into the darkness of Beirut. Drawing on the stories of other soldiers and his own returning fragments of memory, Folman painfully and candidly pieces together the war and his place in it: the senselessness of the soldiers orders; the fear that pervades every moment; the casual bloodshed of civilians, culminating in the massacres themselves.The result is a visual work that is as shocking as it is beautiful. An indictment of violence of extraordinary power, Waltz with Bashir will take its place as one of the great works of wartime reportage.

AUTHOR BIO
Ari Folmanis an award-winning Israeli film director. Saint Clara, his first feature film, won six Israeli Academy Awards (including Best Film and Best Director) and the Peoples Choice Award at the 1996 Berlin Film Festival. He lives in Israel. David Polonskys illustrations have appeared in every major Israeli publication. He has directed animated childrens television, received multiple awards for his childrens books, and taught illustration at the prestigious Bezalel art academy.

BOOK REVIEWS
"A powerhouse film The animation initially works as something of a distancing device, giving you the space intellectual, emotional to process the story and its accumulating horrors. The fluidity of the figures accentuates the air of surreality one soldier compares war to an acid trip which deepens as the story reaches its terrible end. The finale is stunning, at once a furious act of conscience and a lament."Manohla Dargis, The New York Times"Waltz with Bashir will leave its mark forever on the ethics of war films in general. Although there are no new elements of that terrible event revealed here for the first time, the context in which they are put is sufficient to deliver a fearful wallop."Screen "The subject is transmuted via novel use of animation into something special, strange and peculiarly potent. Surreal touches, deployed with tactical restraint, make Waltz with Bashir extraordinary."Variety "A film which resonates to the true, real experience of every soldier and to the current experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, Waltz with Bashir is brilliant."Facets Multi-Media"Waltz With Bashir is an extraordinary, harrowing, provocative picture. We staggered out of the screening in a daze."The Guardian (UK)"A provocative and wholly adult tour de force."Boston Herald"Folman has fashioned something artistically unique and expressive. The imagery is at once beautifully drawn, vivid, and disturbing This deeply compelling film documents the horrors to which Folman and his friends were witnesses, while offering hope that he and others might, some day, heal from the ravages of war. While its too much to hope that this or any film might have an impact in the real world that could put an end to mankinds capacity to hurt one another, films like Waltz with Bashir offer us the opportunity to learn about and from history."Cinematic USA "Persepolis meets Full Metal Jacket in Ari Folmans powerful and original animated war film."Globe and Mail (Canada)"Waltz with Bashir is animated history, much like Persepolis or Joe Saccos graphic novels This strong, strong work leads the audience slowly closer to the massacre until the final, stunning moments almost erupt from the screen."Boston Globe"Dredging up these dreadful memories may have been therapeutic for the men involved, but the point of Waltz With Bashir is bigger than that. It is a remarkable, haunting, and intense work, quite unlike any animated film Ive ever seen."Salon"Waltz With Bashir is about the cold fingers of memory that clutch the heart. Folmans exemplary film says that only by exposing the wounds can they begin to heal. The message of the futility of war has rarely been painted with such bold strokes."Time"A major revelation An animation that is visually bold and politically combustible, its based on the directors own experiences as a draftee soldier. This theme of amnesia, as well as the films stylish and consistently inventive animation, recalls Richard Linklaters A Scanner Darkly as much as it does last years Persepolis. An unforgettable portrait of lost innocence."Daily Telegraph (UK)"Powerful Waltz with Bashir combines the testimonies of Israeli soldiers who fought in the 1982 invasion of Lebanon with brilliant animation and documentary footage in a unique and original manner."Al-Ahram Weekly (Egypt)"Poised strangelypossibly uniquelybetween confessional animation and documentary investigation, Waltz with Bashir explores the directors own experience as an Israeli soldier in Lebanon. That Folman chooses to depict his quest in impressionistic, often dream-like animation makes the film all the more personal, and gives it the urgency of a true cri de coeur."The Independent (UK)"An innovative, powerful moral essay."J. Hoberman, The Village Voice

MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 080508892X
ISBN(13-digit): 9780805088922
Dewey Decimal: 956.9204/4
Library of Congress: 2008023322
Book Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 117

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