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09/01/08
Beaufort (2008)
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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:42
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Beaufort is a deeply observant and meditative war film, masterfully rendered by director Joseph Cedar.
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... [More]
Starring: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman
Director: Joseph Cedar
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Reviews for Beaufort
Top CriticCedar... prefers to let his expansive set and hard-boiled characters tell the story from a ground level rather than implying a commentary... It's as if a weight were lifted, and the 132-minute film moves like a breeze.
02/21/08
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.
08/22/08
Top CriticAlthough the film is mindful of Milestone and Irvin's epics of squandered lives, its focus is tighter and less battle-charged, more Samuel Beckett than Oliver Stone.
01/18/08
Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel.
03/21/08
The film is slow and rather too long (and a bit preachy), but always intense, and its intentions are certainly clear.
08/22/08
Harrowing in an immediate sense but gut-level involvement is elusive.
02/12/08
A riveting depiction of combat-zone terror, this film's main strength is its understatement.
02/23/08
Beaufort is reflective, quietly powerful, and thought provoking - a sobering postscript to the movie is that one month after filming finished, the 33 day “Second Lebanon War” broke out.
03/28/08
The broader political questions aren’t addressed, but Cedar successfully conveys the boredom, fear and claustrophobia experienced by his conscript characters.
03/28/08
Pro-war audiences on both sides will find Joseph Cedar’s vision irresponsible. I think Beaufort captures a higher irresponsibility.
01/14/08
Top CriticFrustration over the futility of their presence in the region (and with those who kept them there) replaces fervor.
01/17/08
Although there's muted criticism here of military strategy, script endeavors to maintain a politically neutral stance, sticking to the ground soldiers' points of view, rendered convincingly here by cast and third-time helmer Joseph Cedar.
10/27/07
Top CriticBeaufort is a psychological war film that's trying to answer the question of why we fight. A "stranger in a strange land" sense makes the participants less connected and further strips their human element.
03/25/08
[A] blistering antiwar film.
08/22/08
Top Critic‘Beaufort’ mounts an impressively credible ‘expressionist’ reconstruction of the futility and contradictions of war as experienced by these men. Its limitation comes from a fundamental failure of vision.
03/27/08
Announces to North American audiences a major new talent in the form of 39-year-old writer-director Joseph Cedar.
02/20/08
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.
05/16/08
Top CriticNot a polemical antiwar film, but rather a deeply human elegy for young lives lost.
03/28/08
Has the claustrophobic feel of 'Das Boot' but is static: no pitched battles, little humor, no women, overlong.
10/23/07
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