Beaufort (film)

Beaufort Hebrew is a 2007 Israeli war film. The film was directed by Joseph Cedar and was cowritten by Cedar and Ron Leshem, based on Leshems novel of the same name. The film is about an IDF unit stationed at the isolated mountaintop Beaufort post in Southern Lebanon during the South Lebanon conflict, and their commander, Liraz Librati, who was the last commander of the Beaufort castle before the Israeli withdrawal in 2000.

Beaufort was generally well received by critics. As ofJuly 2008, the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 88 of critics gave the film positive reviews, based onreviews. Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave it an A, calling it a movie of tremendous powernerveracking, astute, and neutral enough to apply to all soldiers, in all wars, everywhere. A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote Even if it does not entirely rise above clich, Beaufort has an earnest, sober intelligence that makes it hard to shake. It suggests that, for those who fight, the futility of war is inseparable from its nobility. The films concept and look were compared to those of Letters from Iwo Jima.The film gained mostly very positive reviews in Israel several reviewers called it one of the best Israeli films ever. Hannah Brown of The Jerusalem Post called it the first great Israeli war film. The less positive reviews claimed that the film lacks a direct confrontation with its issues or criticism. ........

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