5/10/2023 0 Comments Waltz With Bashir by Ari Folman![]() ![]() ![]() Denying a catastrophe is required to celebrate independence. We’re tempted to ask: Why did it take so long to remember? But on top of the widely experienced suppression of war trauma, Folman’s forgetting is helped along by a willful amnesia that’s inseparable from Israeli’s national story. Their stories become flashbacks that fill the animated documentary, as Folman, hounded by a troubling lack of memory, tries to piece together his own role in Ariel Sharon’s butchering of Beirut. In the film’s opening scene a graying Folman listens to his war comrade Boaz tell of a recurring nightmare: the 26 guard dogs he killed during the invasion hound his sleep.įolman, for his part, says he recalls almost nothing about the war: “It’s not in my system,” he tells Boaz.Īt the advice of a therapist friend (Folman underwent analysis while making the film), he seeks out friends who saw combat. First, he had to remember the war.įolman was 19 during his stint with the IDF in Beirut, stationed a few hundred yards from the massacres of hundreds (some claim thousands) of Palestinians in the city’s Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. IT TOOK ARI Folman 25 years to make “Waltz With Bashir,” his animated film about Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Paul Abowd (“Vals im Bashir” in Hebrew)Īn animated documentary film written and directed ![]() Dancing with Death: "Waltz with Bashir" | Solidarity ![]()
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