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Lebanon (2009)
Director: Samuel West
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From Time Out Online
Maoz’s gruelling winner of Venice Golden Lion is a blood, sweat and soup-smeared purging of graphic personal memories from his stretch in the Israeli infantry during the catastrophic 1982 invasion of Lebanon. Innovatively capturing the lunacy and inscrutability of urban warfare, the story is told almost entirely from the soiled helm of a lumbering tank, as four beleaguered and naive young recruits frenetically react to orders barked at them from superiors while trying to maintain some semblance of hierarchy and sanity. This voyeuristic view of combat scores big for formal audaciousness but also carries an interesting (if hardly original) intellectual depth concerning the psychological brutalisation of ‘innocent’ soldiers.Author: David Jenkins
Time Out Online London Film Festival 2009
Cast & crew
Director: Samuel West
Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen full cast
Duration: 92 mins
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