| Waltz With Bashir |
(Restricted) |
| Synopsis: Animated Drama. A former Israeli soldier (Ari Folman) tries to reconstruct his memory of the 1982 Lebanon War by interviewing others who experienced the massacre in Sabra and Shatila. |
| Content Elements: Infrequent use of profanity and vulgar expressions Infrequent use of crude sexual language Frequent war violence – blood, detail Infrequent portrayals of human and animal corpses – some blood, detail Breast and male frontal nudity in non-sexual contexts Infrequent portrayals of crude bodily functions – little detail Explicit sexual activity in a pornographic context – breast, buttock, male and female frontal nudity Documentary footage of human corpses—detail |
| Thematic Elements: Coping with the past The nature of memory The experience of young soldiers The history of the Sabra and Shatila massacre |
| Classification Rationale: Rated R for explicit sexual content. |
| Classification Date: 02/04/2009 |



