Tue 13 May 2008
“Waltz With Bashir” an animated feature chronicling the real life experience and aftermath of director’s Ari Folman recollections and traumas as a soldier in the first Lebanon war (the third one on the way?) will have its world premiere on Thursday at the Cannes Film Festival, where it’s competing for the Palme D’or. It will be the second competition entry to be unveiled to the jury and the press on the festival’s first full day of screenings.
Meanwhile, here is the exclusive world premiere of the breathtaking trailer to this animated quasi-documentary. It looks stunning.
Update: the silly people at Vimeo have deleted the video. They don’t want movie trailers there, even exclusive ones. Even ones that were embedded over the last three days in nearly all American movie blogs and got viewed thousands of times. So regretfully I’m now attaching not the video I was the first to post in the world, that was in wonderful quality, but the You-Tube international trailer. It’s just as good, just not as crispy looking (and does nothing to my traffic).
May 14th, 2008 at 2:05 am
Without being overly melodramatic my first reaction to the trailer was the feeling of being chocked up and tearful. On the second and third viewing I started thinking if I will actually go see the movie, it seems to powerfull it actually scares me. It looks really stunning, hope it will get the recognition it deserves.
May 17th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Just an observation : I suddenly noticed that the trailer’s tag-line is almost an exact rip-off from PTA’s “Magnolia”. Here it says “We may forget the past, but the past won’t forget us”. In “Maglonia”, the line that’s repeated quite a few times is : “We may be through with the past, but the past isn’t through with us”.
Nevertheless, as the days go by, and I hear more and more good things about “Bashir”, I’m getting more eager to see it.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Is it me or seems like there is so many movies that flop these days. Unless you like transformers…. I loved it!