Lebanon R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 33 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: January 18, 2011
- Originally Released: 2011
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Zohar Strauss, Oshri Cohen, Michael Moshonov & Reymond Amsellem | |
Directed by | Samuel Maoz | |
Screenwriting by | Samuel Maoz | |
Director of Photography: | Giora Bejach |
Entertainment Reviews:
For all its grim purposefulness Lebanon is aimless and adrift, its rigorous fidelity to its central gimmick -- and ultimately it is nothing more than this -- effacing any true contemplation of the experience, or the representation, of combat.
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Cinema Scope
Rating: 4/5 --
Lebanon certainly qualifies as one of the best films about modern warfare with its unflinching depiction of the trade-off between duty and humanity.
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The Age (Australia)
Rating: 4/5 --
[A]n intense, claustrophobic and remarkable tribute to the strength of humanity under extreme duress.
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Roll Credits
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Although Lebanon is to be congratulated for its bold visual strategy and strong antiwar stance, the film becomes claustrophobic after a while. When one of the characters finally emerges from the tank, you may find yourself as relieved as he is.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rating: 3/4 --
We can smell the sweat, urine and diesel fuel in Lebanon. We can taste the exhaust, the metallic tang of explosive fumes from a shell ejected from the cannon.
Orlando Sentinel
Boldly for an anti-war film, LEBANON invites -- and wins -- sympathy for those doing the killing, acknowledging that they do it largely to avoid being killed themselves.
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LEBANON is meticulous, nearly clinical in its attention to what happens in war...but it is also a palpably and intensely personal film.
New York Times
Product Description:
A handful of soldiers take a claustrophobic journey into the heart of war in this drama from Israeli writer and director Samuel Maoz. It's June 1982, and Israel is launching an invasion of Lebanon. Four men assigned to take part in the first strike are put on the same tank detail -- Assi (Itay Tiran) is the commanding officer, Shmulik (Yoav Donat) is a gunner new to the outfit, Hertzel (Oshri Cohen) keeps the weapons loaded, and Yigal (Michael Moshonov) drives the machine. After being given their orders by Jamil (Zohar Strauss), the men set out toward the Lebanese border, recognizing little of what goes on outside beyond what can be seen through Yigal's tiny window; they occasionally stop to help fellow Israelis hurt in battle, but for the most part, they roll relentlessly onward, occasionally arguing amongst themselves, until they arrive at their destination, a town already bombed into rubble by the Israeli Air Force. Few of their allies remain in the city, putting the soldiers in a perilous situation when a band of Syrian resistance fighters lays siege to the tank. LEVANONE (aka LEBANON) was an official selection at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival.
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- UPC: 043396353169
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