Il mare nero di Bashir

by Giorgio Maniaci

[20.2.10] - Un mare nero. Nero e denso, come il petrolio. Un mare in cui ti immergi, affondi, senza affogare mai. Un mare che ti solleva, ti culla tra le onde, ti salva e ti sommerge, ma che non ti trascina al largo, lasciandoti annegare. Questo il mare nero in cui è immerso Ari Folman, protagonista di Walzer con Bashir, film d’animazione sulla guerra israelo-libanese dei primi anni ’80, dallo stesso Folman scritto e diretto, disegnato e illustrato da David Polonsky.

[it] Il mare nero di Bashir

Reviews » Vals Im Bashir, Folman, 2008

Le film anti guerre n'est qu'une mascarade

by Gideon Levy

[26.2.09] - Hollywood sera sous le charme, l’Europe applaudira et le ministère israélien des affaires étrangères enverra le film et ses réalisateurs dans le monde entier pour montrer le pays sous son beau jour. Mais en vérité, c’est de la propagande. Ses réalisateurs ont de la classe, ils sont sophistiqués et doués et ils ont du goût, mais le film est de la propagande.

[fr] Le film anti guerre n'est qu'une mascarade

Reviews » The Road, Hillcoat, 2009

The Other Side of the Road

by Steven Rybin

[26.1.10] - Australian director John Hillcoat's stately Western "The Proposition" (2005) was a stark, mystical story about a civilization's confrontation with its own barely repressed savagery. In mounting an adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's austere apocalyptic novel "The Road", Hillcoat is working with a similar theme, and has found an even more suitable narrative context for the earlier film's end-of-a-world tone, eschewing only the dust browns and evening blues of "The Proposition" for the harsh whites, grays, and blacks appropriate to the wintry devastation of McCarthy's vision. Although Hillcoat thus comes well prepared to an adaptation of The Road, his film version nevertheless has the disadvantage of greeting legions of viewers, less familiar with "The Proposition", perhaps, than with McCarthy's novel, who may be suspicious of an attempt to transpose the book's rigorously affecting prose to the cinema. His effort is also coming on the successful heels of 2007's film version of McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men", an Oscar winner and an intimidating benchmark by any measure.

[en] The Other Side of the Road