The broader political questions aren’t addressed, but Cedar successfully conveys the boredom, fear and claustrophobia experienced by his conscript characters.
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03/28/08
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
Whether framed against this vast landscape or in the poky, subterranean living quarters, an impressive cast of young actors are able to express a growing sense of claustrophobia without words, and music rarely interrupts.
03/28/08
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
a profound exploration of identity, meaning and human struggles in all times and places.
03/28/08
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
Beaufort 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
Moody, tense and claustrophobic, Cedar's unconventional war movie allegorises the political tensions within a beleaguered, bunkered Israel.
03/21/08
One of the strongest examples yet of a fearless new wave that has made Israel's cinema a force on the international scene.
03/14/08
Top CriticBeautiful in its way and terrible in its implications, Beaufort marks Cedar as a distinctive and impassioned talent.
03/14/08
Cedar’s film traffics in the mad illogic of battles whose long-forgotten purpose has hardened into mindless routine. But this hushed, atmospheric mood piece, intricately scripted by Cedar and novelist Ron Leshem, is no action picture.
03/13/08
A riveting depiction of combat-zone terror, this film's main strength is its understatement.
02/23/08
The audience becomes disheartened long before the protagonist does, and so a full hour before the movie has ended, the audience has received the message, digested it and is ready for the fadeout.
02/22/08
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
Announces to North American audiences a major new talent in the form of 39-year-old writer-director Joseph Cedar.
02/20/08
Harrowing in an immediate sense but gut-level involvement is elusive.
02/12/08
Cedar, who was born in New York and now lives in Israel, has a mission of his own: to show the folly of war. He succeeds, even if the claustrophobic filming sometimes makes viewers feel as closed in as the Israeli troops.
01/18/08
Beaufort may be, strictly speaking, a war movie, but for long stretches it feels more like science fiction.
01/18/08
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
Beaufort is a deliberate, reserved dramatization of how an army stands down.
01/17/08
Adapting his spare, intense, award-winning film from the novel by Israeli TV programmer Ron Leshem, Joseph Cedar has created a movie of tremendous power -- nerve-racking, astute, and neutral enough to apply to all soldiers, in all wars, everywhere.
01/17/08
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