Max Richter – The Haunted Ocean 4
Hello all,
It is time to go back to the weekly Monday’s Tune after a long break.
For the first episode of season 2, I’ve decided to send a tune that Dina sent a week ago in her own music list. The track is by Max Richter, composed for the Israeli docu-animation Waltz with Bashir, directed by Ari Folman.
Dina wrote as follows:
Yesterday, as the Israeli government was contemplating a long due cease-fire in Gaza, I was in a small cinema watching a film about another Israeli war, more than twenty years ago. Waltz with Bashir is a recently released full length animation feature written, produced and directed by Ari Folman. The film deals with the first war in Lebanon and the massacre in Sabra and Shatila.
Israel has had many wars and military involvements, but this is the only Israeli film that actually shows in the most sincere, realistic and unpretentious way the affects of the war on one’s psyche and what is going in the mind of the young soldiers involved – all these from insider’s viewpoint and based on Folman’s own story. Another remarkable thing is that this is a first full-length animation feature produced in Israel, and maybe it it telling something about Israel, that the first animation is also the first serious exploration of war experience…
I urge you all to see that film if you can, it is really important, and not only for Israelis… It has recently opened in New York.
Today’s music comes from Waltz with Bashir. It is an instrumental feature called The Haunted Ocean. Except few Israeli songs, most of the film’s music was written by Max Richter, a German-born composer, now living in the UK. His music was also used in a film Stranger than Fiction.