![]() It was described by one reviewer as “ Das Boot in a tank,” and is based on Maoz’s own experience as a tank gunner in the Israeli Defence Forces. 2 ChrisTookey, “War is Hell − and Here’s the Proof”, Daily Mail,, In addition to taking its cues from American films that address the Vietnam War critically, Beaufort is eerily reminiscent of the claustrophobic, dripping horror of Ridley Scott’s Alien, (1979), in which the characters are increasingly confused and dehumanized as they are chased around their spaceship, the Nostromo, by the largely unseen alien. The characters spend much of the film haunted by the death of a reluctant bomb defusing expert and contemplating their reason for being stationed at the fort, given Israel’s impending withdrawal. Like both Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried (1990) and Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 (1961), Beaufort represents war as pointless and absurd from the perspective of the soldier on the ground. It tells the story of a small group of Israeli soldiers charged with guarding a historically significant, though by now tactically irrelevant, fort − incidentally called Beaufort − that was built during the Crusades, and captured by Israel in the 1982 invasion. 1In recent years, three Israeli filmmakers (and former soldiers), have begun to treat the war in Lebanon in ways that are formally innovative, referential, and autobiographical.ĢJoseph Cedar’s Beaufort (2007) is set at the time of Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000. ![]()
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