It is slightly ironic that I wanted to know if it was possible to have a film capable of entering the foreign, animated, and documentary categories at the Oscars. This film is the first that I have encountered that has all of these attributes. Winner of the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language film and coming up short for the Oscar in the same category I really had high hopes for this film.
An Israeli veterans of the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 attempts to reconstruct his memories 20 years later by interviewing his friends. The stories are told in a documentary style as these men recount the horrors of war.
Strange enough to took me over a year to get around to viewing it. The pace of the film is hindered by the documentary style, and as expected from a film trying to fit into too many nitches there really wasn't a single stand out quality. I only enjoyed the animation some of the time, the documentary aspect came up lacking in places, and the almost musical scenes mixing comedy with the horrors of war were disturbing. Granted disturbing was a goal.
The R rating is very generous, there is a lot of sexual and violent content, some that could or should have been avoided. Definitely not as good as I was hoping for.
Vote: 6/10
IMDB Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1185616/
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