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Based on the bestselling novel by Ron Lesham and adapted for the screen by the writer along with the director, Joseph Cedar’s Oscar-nominated Beaufort gives the viewer a deeply immersive and troubling experience of being among the last Israeli soldiers in the Lebanon just before their withdrawal in May 2000, the soldiers holed up in a godforsaken outpost on a mountain top, Beaufort Castle, an ancient twelfth-century Crusader fortress of more symbolic than strategic value. The occupation of the Lebanon is all but over, the IDF in retreat, but while the politicians work out the details, the soldiers sit in isolation, feeling like cannon-fodder for the Hezbollah who intend to see the withdrawal of troops taking place under the appearance of an ignominious defeat.
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The film brilliantly and realistically captures the sense of futility of war, Beaufort showing an almost Samuel Beckett-like precision for the absurdity of the situation, the vulnerability of the soldiers in a precarious and almost hopeless position. The film achieves this through conventional and less conventional means. Holed-up together, bunkered-down seemingly forgotten by the military command, left to fend for themselves, the situation is not unlike that of soldiers in WWI trenches, and their position of vulnerable isolation in close-quarters has more than a passing similarity with the situation of the submarine crew on Das Boot. This provides plenty of opportunity for banter and camaraderie between the men in their bunks, each with stories to tell and ambitions for what to do when they finally get out. All this is handled well in Beaufort, focussing on the human element trapped within a monstrous situation outside of their control and sometimes beyond their comprehension to even process.
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It’s this surreal aspect that is taken further and even more successfully by director Joseph Cedar. Wandering around the encampment, newcomer Ziv finds himself lost in a bewildering maze of identical-looking corridors, some positions “manned” by decoys. Constantly under bombardment from a faceless enemy, the constant mantra of “incoming, incoming” presaging further horrors, Beaufort also at times takes on the surreal aspect of a science-fiction movie, the dimly-lit monochrome tunnels of the outpost looking like something out of Solaris, Aliens or 2001: A Space Odyssey, a sensation emphasised by wonderful airy, eerie score by Ishar Adar.