Festival de Cannes : Film details 2008

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Cannes 08: "Waltz with Bashir."
Published 5/15/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... Following up Fernando Meirelles' dystopic "Blindness" with the animated Israeli documentary "Waltz with Bashir" made for an exceedingly dour day here at Cannes. "Bashir," the better film, orbits a black hole in director Ari Folman's memory that's consumed his time in the army in the early '80s, the point of singularity being the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre, in which Israeli soldiers allowed Lebanese Christian Phalangist militiamen to go into two Palestinian refugee camps, where they then slaughtered hundreds of men, women and children. Folman was there, but ...

Waltz With Bashir.
Published 5/15/2008 at GreenCine Daily
... (to which this film will be inevitably, if somewhat inaccurately, compared) used stark black-and-white animation based on Satrapi's graphic novels to tell the history of one girl growing up during the Iranian revolution, Waltz With Bashir uses vivid, hand-drawn animation to bring to life interviews Folman conducted with friends who were involved in the Lebanese war in the early 1980s to bring to life harrowing memories of death, guilt and regret," writes Cinematical's ...

Cannes: Jeudi, le 15 Mai
Published 5/16/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... “Three Monkeys” premieres to raves. While I was off in the land of the Real World last night, more Cannes action went down. What seems to have been a better day for film than the fests opening day, with a number of films playing to rave reviews, my original dissatisfaction has subsided, the films included: Three Monkeys, Waltz with Bashir, Hunger, Leonera, Tokyo! and Four Nights With Anna. In Competition: “Three Monkeys” by Nuri Bilge ...

Cannes: Your Guess is as Good as Mine
Published 5/25/2008 by Nick Plowman at Fataculture
... to see it. “Un Conte de Noel (A Christmas Tale)” by Arnaud Desplechin Perhaps it is too unfocused, or merely a stand-out gem in an dud-abundant genre, this holiday film - focusing on yet another family who put the “func” in dysfunctional, most critics have called it refreshing - and an utter joy. I am not sure of its chances, but it is a film I plan on seeing eventually, whether the strong reviews are to be believed or not. “Waltz with Bashir” by Ari Folman An animated film that has critics searching for new ...