Speak, memory

Vals Im Bashir (Waltz with Bashir)

Crit

I'm still not a fan of photographic motion-capture toon noir, but it's hard to imagine the technique being used any more effectively than here, from the rampaging dog pack at the start--everything perfectly naturalistic except for the animals' zombie eyes--to the surrender of the animation to heart-ripping live action at the close.

A dream-intensive study of the mind's efforts to obliterate the unassimilable. This is the first of the current batch of foreign-language Oscar®-nominated films that I've seen (though I saw the trailer for another today), and unlike some in recent years, it is worthy.

Trailer

• O' Horten--A train engineer at his retirement: from Bent Hamer (Factotum, Kitchen Stories).