Rotten
The soldiers feel stuck and so do we.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Beaufort
To drown or to float. To live or to die.
2007 · 2h 11m · Unrated
Drama, History, War
Directed by
Joseph Cedar
Overview
BEAUFORT tells the story of LIRAZ LIBERTI, the 22 year-old outpost commander, and his troops in the months before Israel pulled out of Lebanon. This is not a story of war, but of retreat. This is a story with no enemy, only an amorphous entity that drops bombs from the skies while terrified young soldiers must find a way to carry out their mission until their very last minutes on that mountaintop.
Director and cast
- Joseph Cedar Director
- Oshri Cohen as Lieutenant Liraz 'Erez' Librati, bunker commander
- Alon Aboutboul as Brigadier-General Kimchi, division commander
- Ohad Knoller as Lieutenant Ziv Faran, bomb disposal officer
- Itay Tiran as Idan Koris, emergency medical technician
- Daniel Bruck Cast
- Eli Eltonyo Cast
- Gal Friedman Cast
- Nevo Kimchi Cast
- Gideon Levy Cast
- Itay Turgeman Cast
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
86%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Clearly something has gone MIA in moving from the small pictures into a cohesive big one.
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail
Fresh
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.
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star
Fresh
[A] blistering antiwar film.
Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader
Fresh
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.
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
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