BlackTree TV Personality Farai Gundan sits down with Director and Writer of Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which...
BlackTree TV Personality Farai Gundan sits down with Director and Writer of Waltz with Bashir, Ari Folman.
One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that theres a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he cant remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images
Did you start this project as an animated documentary? Yes indeed. WALTZ WITH BASHIR was always meant to be an animated documentary. For a few years, I had the basic idea for the film in my mind but I was not happy at all to do it in real life video. How would that have looked like? A middleaged man being interviewed against a black background, telling stories that happened 25 years ago, without any archival footage to support them. That would have been SO BORING! Then I figured out it could be done only in animation with fantastic drawings. War is so surreal, and memory is so tricky that I thought Id better go all along the memory journey with the help of very fine illustrators. What came first the desire to make a documentary or the desire to make an animated film? It was always my intention to make an animated documentary. Since I had already made many documentaries before it was a real excitement going for an animated one. I made an experiment in my documentary TV series THE MATERIAL THAT LOVE IS MADE OF. Each episode opened with a three-minute animated scene introducing scientists talking about the science of LOVE. It was basic Flash animation, but it worked so well that I knew a feature length animated documentary would eventually work.
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Just screened in my college. Ditto, left everyone speechless, no one moved until a minute after the credits. One of the most intense movie going experiences ever. I recommend it wholeheartedly if you are up for it.
Just saw this movie tonight in Leicester (Odeon). Was really hard hitting, something that you don't get very often. Was excellent. Left me and everyone else in the room speechless throughout the credits. Definitely worth a watch, try not to download!
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