Animated features are represented strongly in today's market. Mostly though, they are celebrity voiced efforts aimed at younger audiences but clever enough that adults will also enjoy them. Waltz with Bashir is most definitely an animation for adults.

It is based on writer/director/producer Ari Folman's experience in the Lebanon war in the early 80s. The movie begins with two veterans discussing the war and the revelation that one of the men can't remember anything from that period. The film is built upon his efforts to regain his memories of this horrific event. As he speaks to other veterans in an effort to regain some recollection we hear what others saw and experienced during the war.

Folman stated that he thought animation would be a better tool for telling this story: it is edgy, often surreal and contributes to the menacing mood throughout. And while we see what happened to, and because of, soldiers in animation, there is always a thought in the back of our minds that this actually happened and we can't help wonder what is was really like. This is a genuinely good film which will affect most of its viewers deeply.