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Flee
Why this pick
Its animated, interview-shaped recollection of a refugee’s past shares Waltz with Bashir’s fusion of memory, trauma and shifting subjective imagery.
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MOVIE2008 1h 30m ISR
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
In 1982, Ari Folman was a 19-year-old IDF infantry soldier. In 2006, he meets with a friend from that period, who tells him of the nightmares he's having connected to his experiences from the 1982 Lebanon War. Folman is surprised to find that he recalls nothing from that period. Later that night he has a vision from the night of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the reality of which he is unable to clearly recall. In his memory, he and his soldier comrades are bathing at night by the seaside in Beirut under the light of flares descending over the city.
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