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Waltz With Bashir
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R,1hr 27min
Released:
December 25, 2008
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Sony Pictures Classics
Synopsis: Director Ari Folman's animated, quasi-documentary Waltz With Bashir follows the filmmaker's emotional attempt to decipher the horrors that unfolded one night in September of 1982, when Christian militia members massacred more than 3,000 Palestinian refugees in the heart of Beirut as Israeli soldiers surrounded the area. Folman was one of those soldiers, but nearly 20 years after the fact, his memories of that night remain particularly hazy. After hearing an old friend recall a vivid nightmare in ... Full Synopsis
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Waltz With Bashir has transcended the definitions of ''cartoon'' or ''war documentary'' to be classified as its own brilliant invention. Full Review
Metascore
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91
Universal Acclaim
out of 100
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Ari Folman, winner of Best Foreign Language Film for "Waltz with Bashir," poses in the press room at...
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