Lebanon (2009)
(Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey)
Country: ISR/FR/GER/GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov
Synopsis:
Israeli soldiers on military service find themselves in the middle of a shooting war when the First Lebanese War breaks out in 1982. Four such crew a tank, code-named Rhino, as it is sent on a routine clearance mission into a bombed out town.
Review:
Nearly all the action of this claustrophobic, deafening war film is viewed from inside the tank, and shuttles between altercations among the crew, an infantry officer and Syrian prisoner, and scenes glimpsed through the gunner's viewfinder, which becomes just a little too flexible, along the lines of pairs of binoculars in seventies westerns. That said, few films can be said to translate the horror and confusion of modern warfare so potently, and succinctly. When to shoot, whom to shoot, what to believe, are questions compounded by the difficulty of seeing clearly, or understanding what is being said by the supposed enemy. But some may find the self-imposed constraints just too much to be subject to, even at this modest length.
(Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey)
Country: ISR/FR/GER/GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov
Synopsis:
Israeli soldiers on military service find themselves in the middle of a shooting war when the First Lebanese War breaks out in 1982. Four such crew a tank, code-named Rhino, as it is sent on a routine clearance mission into a bombed out town.
Review:
Nearly all the action of this claustrophobic, deafening war film is viewed from inside the tank, and shuttles between altercations among the crew, an infantry officer and Syrian prisoner, and scenes glimpsed through the gunner's viewfinder, which becomes just a little too flexible, along the lines of pairs of binoculars in seventies westerns. That said, few films can be said to translate the horror and confusion of modern warfare so potently, and succinctly. When to shoot, whom to shoot, what to believe, are questions compounded by the difficulty of seeing clearly, or understanding what is being said by the supposed enemy. But some may find the self-imposed constraints just too much to be subject to, even at this modest length.
(Lebanon: The Soldier's Journey)
Country: ISR/FR/GER/GB
Technical: col 93m
Director: Samuel Maoz
Cast: Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov
Synopsis:
Israeli soldiers on military service find themselves in the middle of a shooting war when the First Lebanese War breaks out in 1982. Four such crew a tank, code-named Rhino, as it is sent on a routine clearance mission into a bombed out town.
Review:
Nearly all the action of this claustrophobic, deafening war film is viewed from inside the tank, and shuttles between altercations among the crew, an infantry officer and Syrian prisoner, and scenes glimpsed through the gunner's viewfinder, which becomes just a little too flexible, along the lines of pairs of binoculars in seventies westerns. That said, few films can be said to translate the horror and confusion of modern warfare so potently, and succinctly. When to shoot, whom to shoot, what to believe, are questions compounded by the difficulty of seeing clearly, or understanding what is being said by the supposed enemy. But some may find the self-imposed constraints just too much to be subject to, even at this modest length.