Beaufort
by Joseph Cedar
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Actor: Alon Aboutboul, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman, Ohad Knoller, Oshri CohenDirector: Joseph Cedar
Cinematographer: Ofer Inov
Composer: Yishai Adar
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Hebrew (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 126 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: KINO INTERNATIONAL
Movie Reviews of Beaufort
Movie Review: No-one wants to be the last to die in a lost cause
Summary: 5 Stars
The scene is a heavily fortified fort in Lebanon where the Israeli soldiers are to abandon the place and detonate the place soon. The decision is made. Whatever the reasons for coming and staying, it is over and they are leaving. The film shows their lives during these last few weeks.
To the soldiers in the fort. There is no purpose is dieing just to stay a bit longer. I found it interesting that to the higher command and to many others, the fort represented something. It had a history. But to the soldiers all they want to do is go and survive. When someone dies, they question the purpose. While the officer in charge, is trying to keep them together.
I found the scenes of the social attitudes of the Israeli soldiers and commander interesting.
The acting is good as is the story.
Summary of Beaufort
2007 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINEE: BEST FOREIGN FILMWINNER: BEST DIRECTOR (BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL)
After 18 years dug into a heavily fortified mountain deep in occupied Lebanon, the last Israeli soldiers enduring constant bombardment at the site of the ancient crusader stronghold called Beaufort receive orders to abandon their posts, detonate the warren of bunkers in which they ve tenuously clung to life and victory, and come home. Amid redoubled shelling from Hezbollah, the fort s brash, impossibly young commander Liraz (Oshri Cohen) struggles to keep himself and his men safe from a faceless enemy that would turn withdrawal into massacre, and transform a just cause into a lost cause. An unusually dexterous ensemble cast and director Joseph Cedar s (Time of Favor) visionary combination of gritty objectivity, lucid sudden violence, and keen sensitivity to the tangle of terror, duty, and sacrifice common to soldiers of any era, results in a film so realistic, so intense, it verges on the surreal. (LA Times). Suspenseful, poetic, and heartbreakingly transcendent, the Oscar ? nominated Beaufort is a movie of tremendous power (Entertainment Weekly) and one of those once-in-a-decade war pictures that reminds us what's worthwhile about putting the ritualized barbarism of combat onscreen in the first place. (New York Sun)
SPECIAL FEATURES:
- The Making of Beaufort
- 10 Deleted Scenes
- Trailers
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