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Four years in the making,
Waltz With Bashir was assembled as a live-action documentary
based on interviews and newsreel footage.
Has Israel made a mass,
semi-conscious decision to forget about the Sabra and
Chatila massacres of the 1982 Lebanese war, in which Israeli
forces allowed Christian Phalangist militia into Palestinian
refugee camps to slaughter civilians? This extraordinary
animated documentary by Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman - a
kind of fictionalised docu-autobiography - suggests that
Israelis have indeed forgotten, in a kind of huge, willed
amnesia. But his movie makes an acid-trip down memory lane,
and Folman might have created his generation's very own
Apocalypse Now.
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