Ari Folman

Director

Israeli film director and screenwriter, known for the animated documentary Waltz with Bashir and the hybrid live-action/animation film The Congress.

Waltz with Bashir won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. Folman is noted for using animation and rotoscoping and for blending documentary and fiction.

The reviews praise Ari Folman's use of animation and rotoscoping to explore memory, trauma and the ethics of representation. Waltz With Bashir is discussed as a brave animated documentary about Lebanon and the Sabra and Chatila events; The Congress is noted for its mixed live-action/animation and social critique of image and industry. Overall the reception is admiring and thoughtful.

For:Viewers interested in animated cinema, political documentary, memory and trauma in film, and auteur-driven works.

 With "Waltz with Bashir" it seems to me that Folman tries to take a pair of sharp scissors.

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 Watch this film. In the few hours afterward, it will change your attitude not only towards what you’ve seen but also towards all the massacres that pass before our eyes and which we no longer care about.

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 Many films (the majority) don't even deserve a line of review, others cannot be described in words, and "Waltz with Bashir," by the Israeli Ari Folman, is one of these, but I will try nonetheless to describe it to encourage you to enjoy one of the most beautiful films in the entire history of cinema, in my opinion.

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