Cannes | NY Times keeps "Waltz" dancing
In Manohla Dargis' Cannes article for the NY Times, she picks out "Waltz With Bashir" in particular, though as of tonight some distribs still have cold feet.
Cannes has a tradition of shaking audiences up, sometimes all the way out the nearest exit. Last year on Day 1, the festival unveiled “4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days,” the Romanian film about illegal abortion during the Ceausescu era, which took home the Palme d’Or. This year that same competition slot was occupied by another powerhouse film, “Waltz With Bashir,” an animated documentary from Israel about the 1982 massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.
Michael Jones is the film festival editor at Variety.com. 
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