The Futility of Truth or Reconciliation in Waltz with Bashir

By Luke Z. Fenchel

Although it examines culpability and responsibility in service of truth and reconciliation, this film fails to address the structures of power, and arguably perpetuates the very atrocities that it sets out to condemn. [26 June 2009]

Waltz with Bashir (Vals Im Bashir)

By Cynthia Fuchs

As Waltz with Bashir makes visible its distrust of imperfect history and daunting memory, it insists on their necessity. [23 January 2009]

Short Ends and Leader: This ‘Waltz’ is a Disturbing Dance with Death

A painful, personal dance in ‘Waltz With Bashir’ [29 January 2009]