We went to see the Israeli film Waltz with Bashir last Saturday evening at Zita Cinema in Stockholm.
The movie is about the Israeli war in Lebanon in 1980. It's told from the perspective of some rather traumatized and alienated individual soldiers. At the heart of the story are the massacres at the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps in Beirut.
It's a cartoon movie, but that's something you fail to take notice of already after a few minutes. It's a truly beautifully made movie. The drawing is magnificent; the poetry of the images and scenes just fabulous. It's also well told, incredibly captivating and moving. It is also a deeply disturbing movie.
The atmospere of the movie is highly claustrophobic and haunting. Borderline psychotic; the soldiers are high on drugs and so is the movie. It brings Apocalypse Now to mind, but less embellished, more naked, more honest.
Strongly recommended. Very strongly recommended.
No drugs as far as I know.
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