Review of Waltz with Bashir (2008) by Andrae A — 27 Jan 2010
I have found with international film that subtitles can disengage you from the visual element and force you to watch the film more than once to really appreciate it. Maybe it was because Folman was hoping to create a connection with a younger audience, however, that he was able to master an approach of delivering pockets of highly emotive dialogue that was punctuated with the visual.
The subtitles were so personal, so connected to the persona behind them, that I truly felt like I was hearing them in English. The animation is powerful and textural, placing what would have been another story of the psychological causalities of political warfare into a visceral and emphatic medium that forces the subtexts to resonate.
Waltz was and is still deserving of its high praise and Oscar gong and stands as a classic of our times.
This review of Waltz with Bashir (2008) was written by Andrae A on 27 Jan 2010.
Waltz with Bashir has generally received very positive reviews.
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