Soundtracks keep coming out quietly on the sly. Add Ari Folman’s soundtrack to the excellent animated film about the 1983 Beirut massacre, “Waltz With Bashir.”
We failed to write a proper review of this documentary based on Folman’s personal nightmarish-dreams about the tragedy (he was an soldier in the Israeli Army in the war with Lebanon), but we did note its commanding effect and its examination of the staying-power of guilt.
We also wrote about the music. For a film with such a heavy subject matter, its surprisingly comical and light-hearted at times (but never disrespectfully). The film features a score composed by minimalist electronic musician Max Richter, and features songs by OMD (“Enola Gay“), P.I.L. (“This Is Not A Love Song“), Navadei Haucaf (“Good Morning Lebanon” which is written for the movie), The Click (“Inkubator”) and Zeev Tene‘s remake of the Cake song “Korea,” retitled, “Beiruth.”
The soundtrack disc which came out on import earlier this month, only features the OMD and P.I.L. songs, but does feature most, if not all of Richter’s score which is sonorous and extremely moving and rich. A bunch of tracks have leaked to YouTube, so we’ll include them below under the tracklist and we highly recommend you check them out and the film which hits theaters in limited release (NY only to begin) on December 26 and expands from there. The film was remarkably accepted to all the major film festivals this year, including, the New York Film Festival, Toronto Film Festival, Telluride and the Cannes Film Festival if you want to get a strong hint of its quality. Here’s the trailer if you haven’t already seen it. Sadly, the film was not eligible to run in the Best Documentary Film Oscar category because of a stupid technicality, but there’s hopes that it will still earn an nomination in the animated category.
“Waltz With Bashir” soundtrack tracklist
1. Boaz and the Dogs
2. Iconography
3. Haunted Ocean, Pt. 1
4. JSB/RPG
5. Shadow Journal
6. Enola Gay – O.M.D.
7. Haunted Ocean, Pt. 2
8. Taxi and Apc
9. Any Minute Now/Thinking Back
10. I Swam out to Sea/Return
11. Patchouli Oil and Karate
12. This Is Not a Love Song – P.I.L.
13. What Had They Done?
14. Into the Airport Hallucination
15. Slaughterhouse
16. Haunted Ocean, Pt. 3
17. Into the Camps
18. Haunted Ocean, Pt. 4
19. Andante/Reflection (End Title)
20. Haunted Ocean, Pt. 5 [Solo Version]
Max Richter – “I Swam out to Sea/Return”
Max Richter – “The Haunted Ocean Pt. 5”
Max Richter – “Andante-Reflection”