Waltz with Bashir (18)

Verdict: ****

By Robbie Collin, 15/11/2008

THE bad news first: Waltz With Bashir is NOT a deleted scene from Living With Michael Jackson.

Now the good news: it's one of the weirdest ideas for a film I've ever seen and yet it works amazingly.

This is a doco about the 1982 Lebanon War but instead of the usual interview and archive-footage combo, it's made as a Yellow Submarine-style animation.

Writer-director Ari Folman and a friend turn their muddled recollections of the war into this terrifying and hauntingly beautiful film.

If you're as pig-ignorant about foreign affairs as I am (until I saw this film I thought Ariel Sharon was an brand of Israeli washing powder), you'll struggle with the lack of background info.

But that's the only flaw in what must be the most extraordinary movie of 2008.

OUT FRIDAY

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