Bufor (Beaufort) - One of the best films I've seen lately...

[Mr. Popo]

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Bufor is no doubt one of the best films I've seen lately, and I've seen a lot!

I know it's an Israeli film, but I also know it acts all over the world, just not sure where exactly.

It won the "Berlin International Film Festival" for best director!

I can't really describe the movie, so I'll just copy from IMDb...

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. As Liraz lays the explosives which would destroy that very same structure that his friends had died defending, he witnesses the collapse of all he's been taught as an officer, and his soldier's mental and physical disintegration.

Search for it in a cinema near you, and if you can find it, see it!

The official site

IMDb's page

Wikipedia's page

 

[Mr. Smith]

I love a bit of world cinema, this sounds interesting so i'll give it a look

 

[Dav0s]

ive not seen it or read about it..

but from what i can see i will bet its a book turned into a film?

 

[Mr. Popo]

ive not seen it or read about it..

but from what i can see i will bet its a book turned into a film?

It's about the retreat from Lebanon in the year 2000... there's no book.

Also:

The movie's director, himself an IDF veteran who was stationed in Lebanon[/B'], uses the stone walls of Beaufort castle as a symbol of the futility and endlessness of war. The film was shot in northern Israel in the spring of 2006. Symbolically, filming was completed in June, just a month before the second war in Lebanon broke out.