2007 · war · drama · military
Beaufort
Directed by Joseph Cedar2h 11m2007
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.
Our read: Beaufort (2007) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded war · drama · military entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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