Yale Daily News

Updated: Monday, November 23, 2009 12:00 a.m.

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An incomplete beauty

Staff Reporter
Published Friday, February 13, 2009
 

In the wake of the Israeli assault on Gaza, the arrival of “Waltz With Bashir,” which has been nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars this year, seems more timely than ever. Part animated documentary, part memoir-cum-acid trip, “Waltz With Bashir” looks like nothing you’ve seen before. The film took four years to make and the results are incredible. The characters move like ghosts underwater, gliding and undulating, and the color palette shifts again and again, from a murky green to a claustrophobia-inducing yellow-brown. Sometimes the backgrounds are crystal-clear, as if director...

#1 By Roy 10:10p.m. on February 17, 2009

What an embarrassing review. Apparently, the reviewer doesn't know that Fulman is an Israeli who is not allowed to go to Lebanon and that none of the survivors of the massacre is allowed to go to Palestine, as it is still occupied and controlled by Israel. There is no place for such criticism, which only shows how lazy the critic is.

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