Winter/Spring Film Series - Waltz With Bashir

The Four Corners Arts Center is pleased to announce the Winter/Spring film series at The Meeting House. A film will be shown every other Wednesday beginning February 22nd at 7:30 p.m with the Film “Waltz With Bashir.” The films have been selected to include a broad variety of topics from various periods that include environmental, educational and social commentary.

Waltz With Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War.

One night at a bar, an old friend tells director Ari Folman about a recurring nightmare in which he is chased by 26 vicious dogs. Every night, the same number of beasts. The two men conclude that there’s a connection to their Israeli Army mission in the first Lebanon War of the early eighties. Ari is surprised that he can’t remember a thing anymore about that period of his life. Intrigued by this riddle, he decides to meet and interview old friends and comrades around the world. He needs to discover the truth about that time and about himself. As Ari delves deeper and deeper into the mystery, his memory begins to creep up in surreal images.

A.O. Scott, of New York Times calls this film “A memoir, a history lesson, a combat picture, a piece of investigative journalism and an altogether amazing film." An "…absolute stunner.." Says Joe Morgenstern, of the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe feels that it is "Difficult to remember impossible to forget ." While Anthony Lane of the New Yorker states that “a movie so unusual that it overflows any box in which you try to contain it."

The Four Corners Arts Center Film Series has been generously sponsored by Coastal Roasters Coffee of Tiverton.