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Film “in the mode of Pesepolis” wins National Society of Film Critics’ top honor

January 4th, 2009
Author J. Caleb Mozzocco

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The National Society of Film Critics declared Waltz With Bashir the best picture of 2008. In reporting the win, Variety described it as “a Sony Classics pic in the mode of the distrib’s 2007 release Persepolis.”

Written and directed by Israeli Ari Folman, it’s an animated memoir-esque documentary of sorts about his country’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon. A sodier at the time, he himself played a part in the invasion.

A 128-page graphic novel version with the same title will be released by Metropolian Books next month, with Folman credited as writer and David Polonsky, the film’s art director and chief illustrator, as the artist (Click through to the link for plenty of sample pages).

Waltz had previously won six awards from the Israeli Film Academy (the Israeli Oscars), was named best animated film by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and was nominated for a Golden Globe for best foreign-language film. For more info, including the trailer and somce clips, check out the film’s homepage here.

 
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