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”
Hi 🙂
Thank you very much for the playlist. It helped me to find the name of the atist of “This is not a love song”.
Hi, in the trailer (saw it yesterday at the movies) there is a really good electronic dance song, really high intensity. which song is that on the playlist below?
I would need an exact link to the trailer, but i’m almost positive it’s OMD’s Enola Gay.
does anyone know the name of the song that plays in the nightclub scene?
What’s the classical music piece that plays before the encounter with the boy with the rocket launcher?
Max Richter’s excellent score.
yeah i also want to know the song from the nightclub scene… please help!!!
hi 🙂
i’m looking for the lullaby that plays when the white girl comes after the ice cream car. does anyone knows the name?
“This Is Not a Love Song” plays during the English voice-over trailer.
i’ve been looking all over the place for “good morning lebanon” and “inkubator” but i can’t find either of them. do you know if they ever plan on releasing that song for download?
What about Good Morning Lebanon?!?!?!
I think the classical music in this movie is of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Why was Bob Dylan one of those thanked at the end of the film? music? voiceover? consultant?
i don’t know if i’ve been mistaken but is the clicks – “inkubator” on the soundtrack?
it says it is but is not on the tracklist?
The song there’s not on list:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tlJTA2gWCZQ
I think the music in the scene with boy with the RPG in the orchard is JS Bach – not sure – but the piano music which plays while the protagonist is hallucinating his own burial, and later at the end of the film, is the slow movement from Schubert’s penultimate piano sonata in A major, D959.
Here you can download Good Morning Lebanon
http://www.badongo.com/audio/13627964
Anyone know the name of the song that plays as the it cuts to the Love Boat scene? That great party jam?
The song in the love boat scene is from OMD and the name of the song is Enola Gay
Here is the link to enjoy the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_X43zcXcU&feature=related
what is the song playing during the 'waltz' scene in the movie?
Which is the rock song where the guy is playing his ak47 like a guitar and the scenery moves rapidly around him?
the rock song is a remake of a cake song, "i bombed korea", called "beirut" by zeev tene. good luck finding it.
The song playing during the waltz scene is Waltz In C-Sharp Minor, Op.64, No.2 by Frédéric Chopin
Great movie, amazing Soundtrack, I found "Beirut" from Zeev Tene, enjoy:
http://www.4shared.com/get/88420727/f9bc2775/Zeev_Tene_-_Beirut.html;jsessionid=1BEF7C8E95F8981325B5BC92C47198F5.dc113
Wow, I saw this movie yesterday- found it extremely affecting- the music plays a big role in that…between you and all the comments all my questions have been answered- thanks! Definitely buying this soundtrack- though the tracks make me a bit melancholy.
Thx…- <(O_O)> – BIP
Does anyone know which is the music when they are in a mansion, and there was a guy watching porn movies? Sounds a great song 😀
Great soundtrack… great movie… This movie really helped me undertand what really happened here, in the country where I live… Thank you so much Ari Folman and Max Richter…
I would also like to know the name of the song played during the boy with the RPG scene. Someone mentioned it might be JS bach, but there are so many songs to sift through it would be greatly appreciated if somebody knew the exact piece.
🙁 It's a pity. I bought the Soundtrack, and found out just now that it doesn't include "Good Morning Lebanon". It is not that that was the only song that I wanted, but, gee, I really liked most of the soundtrack, and I thought I was getting it all. I can't seem to get the file posted earlier.
Song during the nightclub scene is Enola Gay!
the song in the boy with the rpg scene is Bach: Keyboard Concerto No. 5.
Here is a video with the song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URDi86D2eyY
The song during the orchard is Harpsichord concerto No.5 in F minor, BWV 1056 2nd Mov't. Largo
By Bach.
The other one I believe is the Aria from the Goldberg variations, also by Bach, towards the beginning of the film.