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10/18/08
Beaufort (2008)
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Reviews Counted: 46
Fresh: 40
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.9/10
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 in the 12th century, the fort was... [More]
Starring: Oshri Cohen, Itay Tiran, Eli Eltonyo, Itay Turgeman
Director: Joseph Cedar
Reviews for Beaufort
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
The film is slow and rather too long (and a bit preachy), but always intense, and its intentions are certainly clear.
08/22/08
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.
05/29/08
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.
05/19/08
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 Critic It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important.
05/02/08
Culturally specific war movie leaves non-Israelis wondering what we missed
04/25/08
This Oscar-nominated drama makes excellent use of its location and ensemble cast.
04/18/08
Top Critic A fine war picture, one that spotlights war's wastefulness and futility, and humanizes its soldier characters.
03/29/08
[Director Joseph] Cedar gives a surreal, dreamlike quality to many scenes, underscoring the soldiers' isolation.
03/28/08
Top Critic 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.
03/28/08
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.
03/28/08
Top Critic 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.
03/28/08
Not a polemical antiwar film, but rather a deeply human elegy for young lives lost.
03/28/08
Top Critic The broader political questions aren’t addressed, but Cedar successfully conveys the boredom, fear and claustrophobia experienced by his conscript characters.
03/28/08
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