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Plot: The true story of the last unit of soldiers on the legendary Beaufort outpost.
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MCT:October 14, 2008
sometimes i imagine that if there was a war in china. how can we do? maybe we would run away from fire all the time. screaming from loss ,pain,hunger,hurt in the streets,how brutal life it will be! the isrel people can feel that bad feeling somehow in beaufurt ,how the parents lost their sons in a war? they have no choice,only to bear the sorrow and pain in hearts. we can't say anything,pray for the death!wish peace forever
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MCT:September 25, 2008
A. O. Scott said it all perfectly before me:
http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/movies/18beau.html -
MCT:March 6, 2008
A rare but not uncommon (jar head) breed of a war film - one without an enemy, where little happens and characters spend their time mostly waiting and talking. It's somewhat longish, but when paired with good photography and allegedly realistic portrait of life in an outpost, it works. At the same time, we are a little bored and anxious about what will come next.
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MCT:February 29, 2008
"Beaufort" is an Academy Award nominee for best foreign film, though it's not in the same league as Romania's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days," which did not receive a nomination. It takes place mainly inside and around a set meticulously constructed from photos and footage of Beaufort, a fort built by Crusaders in the 12th century. The Israelis captured it from the PLO in 1982 and occupied it for the next 18 years.
Liraz (Oshri Cohen) is a young commander who would be a formidable soldier in a normal war. As things stand, he has the confused task of defending the fort until such time as the government tells him to evacuate it. At the start of the film, we see him bullying a bomb specialist (Ohad Knoller) to go on a dangerous mission to defuse a mine. For a while, the movie seems as though the bomb specialist is going to be the main focus, but the movie is more interested in the bullying commander - and how his beliefs are tested.
The last thing any government wants is a convoluted and protracted conflict that breaks the spirit of its best officers. Because the point of the film is that the soldiers here are impotent, there's not much that they can do, by definition. Thus, the narrative lurches from one incident to the next, with no sense of build.
The best that can be said for "Beaufort" is that it's a little like what it must have been like to be there - but it's not. It can't be, because the defining circumstance of ongoing fear and mortal terror is missing. The failure of the filmmaker to dramatically replicate those emotions, at least in some form, prevents "Beaufort" from being anything more than a noble gesture. -
MCT:July 27, 2007
I think of Days of Glory while I'm seeing this film because it both said about soldiers who doesn't want to be in war.
I like Days of Glory more.
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