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In this section we’re
gonna name a few Sheffield
forms of fun, food, drink
and music; pretty much
whatever springs to mind.
The aim of this is to give
credit where credits due.
waltz with bashir.
showroom.
from Friday 21 November
Box Office 0114 2757727
showroom.org.uk
Visit these places, do
these things and generally
ensure that YOU have at
least the opportunity
to experience a
NOw THEN good time.
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THINKING
CHOOSING
LAUGHING
MUSIC
ART
INDEPENDENT FOLK
PASSIONATE FOLK
GOOD CLEAN FOOD
VIVID EXPERIENCES
and anything in between!
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and we’ll go check
it out ourselves.
Film preview by Bill Lawrence,
Creative Director,
Showroom Cinema.
By any consideration Waltz with Bashir
is an extraordinary film. It is entrancing,
dreamlike and compelling. It is a
hybrid film following the style used
before in films such as A Scanner
Darkly and Waking Life – live action
is shot and then using rotoscoping
computer animation techniques the
film moves into a different dimension.
However, here Folman uses more
traditional illustrators to create the
effect.
In Waltz with Bashir the original
material is largely documentary
interviews with Israeli soldiers who
were involved in the war in Lebanon
in 1982 and animated reconstructions
of their experiences leading up to
the massacres of Palestianians in the
Sabra and Shatila camps by Christian
Phalangists.
Director Ari Folman starts the film with
a vivid portrayal of a nightmare that a
former army comrade has repeatedly.
He dreams 26 violent and aggressive
dogs are chasing him. From this
dramatic start, Folman goes to meet
other former soldiers of the campaign
and investigates the after effects of
their experiences.
Waltz with Bashir builds to a shocking
climax and creates some surprisingly
powerful action sequences. The
interviews are at times moving and
even amusing, yet the film sidesteps
the central issue of the Israeli
involvement with the massacres, with
only the briefest of reference to Ariel
Sharon. That said, it does bring an
almost forgotten massacre to the
minds of western audiences and the
film is a magnificent visual experience.
FAVOURITES.
PAGe FIFTY.
like black fruit pastilles.