'Waltz With Bashir'

By Jay Bobbin, Zap2It | June 19, 2009

(Sony Pictures Classics)

A scene from 'Waltz With Bashir'

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One of last year's most-discussed foreign films, this Oscar nominee details – through extensive animation – the experiences of the film's writer-director, Ari Folman, a former Israeli soldier who was privy to a massacre following the death of Lebanon's president in 1982.

With his memory of the situation almost nonexistent, Folman seeks others who were present at the time, in order to reconstruct for himself what happened.

Older viewers should be aware that though this is a "cartoon" in the literal sense, it isn't for children. DVD extras: two "making-of" documentaries; audio commentary by, and interview with, Folman. *** (R: AS, N, GV) (Also on Blu-ray)

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