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Review: Waltz With Bashir

Dancing on the edge
By PETER KEOUGH  |  January 13, 2009
4.0 4.0 Stars

Best to see Waltz with Bashir more than once. But no matter how many times you do, and no matter what tricks the memory or the filmmaker plays with it, the horrific ending will always be the same. The flares in Folman's dream light the way to a terrible truth, suggesting that one reason the past keeps repeating itself is because it never goes away.

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