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March 27, 2008
Beaufort
Cert 15, 120 mins
Nominated for the Oscar for best foreign language film earlier this year, Beaufort is an airless Israeli drama set mainly in the tomb-like underground confines of an Israeli outpost in Lebanon towards the close of the first Lebanon war. Young soldiers sleep stacked up in a metal tube; the daily bombardment by Hezbollah rockets is heralded with the announcement “Incoming, incoming”, delivered in a tone of bored resignation.
Liraz (Oshri Cohen) is the outpost commander and it’s through his eyes that this claustrophobic drama unfolds. Young, idealistic and a by-the-book military man, Liraz begins, despite himself, to question his post and the failures of his superiors. A series of avoidable fatalities shake the young soldier’s faith in the army and in himself. Not a polemical antiwar film, but rather a deeply human elegy for young lives lost.
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The movie was compelling. With a delicate touch, the director creates an atmopshere of fear, bravery, comradeship and conflict that makes the film a must see. Totally deserved its Oscar nomination. Go see it.
richelle, london,
A waste of time really. The movie lacks a plot, and the scenario is lame. Do not watch unless you are seriously bored and thinking of getting suicidal.
We are so surprised it was nominated for an oscar! Is it guilt over the holocaust that makes us vote for such lousy movies to be acclaimed?
Isreali cinema can do much better than this, this is one of the worst movies to come out of Israel!
Colin, London, UK