{"id":3831,"date":"2008-11-20T19:20:04","date_gmt":"2008-11-20T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=3831"},"modified":"2008-11-28T10:40:42","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T09:40:42","slug":"interview-ari-folman-on-waltz-with-bashir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2008\/11\/20\/interview-ari-folman-on-waltz-with-bashir\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Ari Folman on Waltz With Bashir"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Waltz With Bashir<\/a><\/strong> is the remarkable new film that\u00a0deals with\u00a0the memory of Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in\u00a01982<\/a>\u00a0which culminated in the\u00a0Sabra and\u00a0Shatila\u00a0massacre<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Directed by\u00a0Ari Folman<\/strong><\/a>, it examines his experiences in the army and struggle to remember what happened as he interviews fellow soldiers from the time.<\/p>\n

The strange title is taken from a scene with one of Folman\u2019s interviewees remembers taking a machine gun and dancing an \u2018insane waltz\u2019 amid enemy fire, with posters of\u00a0Bashir Gemayel<\/a>\u00a0lining the walls behind him.<\/p>\n

Gemayel<\/a>\u00a0was the Lebanese president who whose\u00a0assassination<\/a>\u00a0helped trigger the massacre.<\/p>\n

The most unusual and startling aspect of the film is that it is animated, an unconventional approach for what is essentially a documentary.<\/p>\n

I recently spoke with Ari in London about the film and you can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Ari_Folman_on_Waltz_With_Bashir.mp3]\n

Download\u00a0it as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Watch the trailer here:<\/p>\n

<\/embed><\/object>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waltz With Bashir<\/em><\/strong> is out at selected UK cinemas from Friday 21st November<\/em><\/p>\n

* Find a cinema near you that is showing the film by clicking here<\/a> *<\/p>\n

>\u00a0Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Ari Folman<\/a>\u00a0at the IMDb
\n> Official site for Waltz With Bashir<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Find out more about the Shabra and Shatila massacre<\/a>\u00a0at Wikipedia
\n> Get local showtimes for the film via Google Movies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Waltz With Bashir is the remarkable new film that\u00a0deals with\u00a0the memory of Israeli soldiers involved in the invasion of Lebanon in\u00a01982\u00a0which culminated in the\u00a0Sabra and\u00a0Shatila\u00a0massacre. Directed by\u00a0Ari Folman, it examines his experiences in the army and struggle to remember what happened as he interviews fellow soldiers from the time. The strange title is taken from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198,19,15],"tags":[613,138,186],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}