Waltz With Bashir (2008), Ari Folman, B+
A meditation on war and memory that is more “interesting” than anything else.
The animation works very well for its subject – to have shot it any other way would have just been non-actors talking – but, in this case, I think I could have used a little more traditional 3-act storytelling, though. Very evocative, mood-driven piece.
I’ll leave the politics out, but I still don’t understand why Israel has spent over 20 years hanging their heads over an incident where they did none of the killing. Where are the Arab movies about the atrocities they actually committed with their own hands?