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Beaufort (2008)

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Reviews Counted:48

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Rotten:6

Average Rating:7/10

Consensus: Beaufort is a deeply observant and meditative war film, masterfully rendered by director Joseph Cedar.

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 2 hrs 11 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Mar 21, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort ("Good Fort") mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders... Lebanon War veteran Joseph Cedar (CAMPFIRE) directs a harrowing, often haunting account of Israel's 2000 withdrawal from Lebanon and the Beaufort ("Good Fort") mountain fortress. Built by Crusaders in the 12th century, the fort was captured by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in 1982 at the start of the Lebanon War. Eighteen years later, increasing criticism at home and abroad has led to Israel's decision to withdraw completely from Lebanon. Charged with managing the fort's defense and its evacuation is 22-year-old commander Liraz Liberti (Oshri Cohen). Eager to lead but emotionally untested, Liraz must maintain his bare-bones troop's discipline between bouts of claustrophobic tedium and increasing harassment by Hezbollah mortar attacks. That tenuous balance threatens to unravel with the arrival of bomb-disposal specialist Ziv (Ohad Knoller), as well as an unexpectedly sophisticated Hezbollah strike that reveals the limits of Liraz's abilities. Director Cedar and co-screenwriter Ron Leshem (on whose novel the film is based) eschew political statements and side-taking to instead examine the complexities of individuals bound by duty to a seemingly lost cause. Affectingly acted and directed, BEAUFORT--winner of the Silver Bear at the 2007 Berlin Film Festival--acknowledges the futility of war without ever surrendering its humanity or sense of hope. The film also received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film. [More]

Starring: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman

Starring: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman, Ohad Knoller

Director: Joseph Cedar

Director: Joseph Cedar
Screenwriter: Joseph Cedar, Ron Leshem
Producer: David Silber, David Mandil
Composer: Ishai Adar
Studio: Kino International

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Powerful portrait of an officer and his soldiers facing up to what it means to serve in an army of a fallible, democratic country that spins an explosive pyrrhic victory

Full Review Source: Film-Forward.com | comment Comment
12/23/08
Nora Lee Mandel
Nora Lee Mandel
Film-Forward.com

It doesn't come like a full-length, filmed history lesson at all. In fact, it's a pretty fascinating, sometimes disturbing tale about the emotional and physical toll of combat.

Full Review Source: Deseret News, Salt Lake City | comment Comment
10/18/08
Jeff Vice
Jeff Vice
Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Engaging war drama that subtly mixes in several different genres to intriguing effect, though it occasionally relies too heavily on cliches.

Full Review Source: ViewLondon | comment Comment
10/18/08
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

Clearly something has gone MIA in moving from the small pictures into a cohesive big one.

Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
09/01/08
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Kamal Al-Solaylee
Globe and Mail
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As long as soldiers have gone into battle they have struggled with the rightness of their actions and their purpose in the field -- no matter how firm their resolve at the outset.

Full Review Source: Toronto Star | comment Comment
08/22/08
Linda Barnard
Linda Barnard
Toronto Star
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The film is slow and rather too long (and a bit preachy), but always intense, and its intentions are certainly clear.

Full Review Source: Jam! Movies | comment Comment
08/22/08
Liz Braun
Liz Braun
Jam! Movies

[A] blistering antiwar film.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
08/22/08
Andrea Gronvall
Andrea Gronvall
Chicago Reader
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In the end [it] isn't about victory or defeat... It's about surviving another day, doing one's job, and getting back to family.

Full Review Source: The Jewish Advocate | comment Comment
05/29/08
Daniel M. Kimmel
Daniel M. Kimmel
The Jewish Advocate

Even if they do finally get to leave, the film's dispiriting message seems to tell us, in eight centuries there will probably be a new set of soldiers guarding Beaufort.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
05/19/08
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)

The camera never leaves the beleaguered compound, and Beaufort itself becomes a character in the story, a surrealistic zone of tunnels, bunkers and sandbags, about as far from the possibility of heroism as possible.

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
05/16/08
Stephen Hunter
Stephen Hunter
Washington Post
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It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important.

Full Review Source: Film.com | comment Comment
05/02/08
Jonathan F. Richards
Jonathan F. Richards
Film.com
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Culturally specific war movie leaves non-Israelis wondering what we missed

Full Review Source: Movie Habit | comment Comment
04/25/08
Marty Mapes
Marty Mapes
Movie Habit

This Oscar-nominated drama makes excellent use of its location and ensemble cast.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/18/08
Patrick Peters
Patrick Peters
Empire Magazine

A fine war picture, one that spotlights war's wastefulness and futility, and humanizes its soldier characters.

Full Review Source: EricDSnider.com | comment Comment
03/29/08
Eric D. Snider
Eric D. Snider
EricDSnider.com

[Director Joseph] Cedar gives a surreal, dreamlike quality to many scenes, underscoring the soldiers' isolation.

Full Review Source: Denver Post | comment Comment
03/28/08
Nell Minow
Nell Minow
Denver Post
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A war drama about waiting, and the director, Joseph Cedar, does a terrific job hanging danger and crushing tedium in the air, side by side.

Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph | comment Comment
03/28/08
Tim Robey
Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph

Despite the unremitting focus on the claustrophobia of outpost life, it's hard to ignore the by-now hoary tropes of the war movie with which Cedar litters his screenplay.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
03/28/08
Andrew Pulver
Andrew Pulver
Guardian [UK]

An achingly honest account of the daily fears faced by soldiers.

Full Review Source: Sun Online | comment Comment
03/28/08
Sun Online

Aside from a pretty impressive final battle, there’s little to engage here, although all that waiting around does mean there’s time to nicely flesh out the characters, while the action scenes are well handled.

Full Review Source: Daily Mirror [UK] | comment Comment
03/28/08
Daily Mirror [UK]

Not a polemical antiwar film, but rather a deeply human elegy for young lives lost.

Full Review Source: Times [UK] | comment Comment
03/28/08
Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide
Times [UK]
 
 
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