Waltz with Bashir (2008)

Israeli animated documentary about the nations 1982 ‘military intervention’ in Lebanon (see Rob there’s a 1982 historical event bigger then the Falklands). Inspired by director Ari Folman's search to recover his suppressed memories of serving in the conflict as a young man, the flash animation brings a new kind of reality to what is ultimately a series of reflections by those who new him in the war. Like the previous years Persopilis this is a sort of animated memoire as middle eastern history lesson, and the two films prove that to be the mostly unlikely yet effective subgenera to come on the scene in years. Complete with some of the more impressively haunting film images of the last year. 4 out of 5.