"Like Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) Samuel Maoz served in the Israeli armed forces in the 80s, and has now...
"Like Ari Folman (Waltz with Bashir) Samuel Maoz served in the Israeli armed forces in the 80s, and has now made a visceral, confrontational film about his experience.
"His film is as much concerned with the spiritual devastation of young Israeli soldiers as it is with the violence wrought upon the invaded. A technical tour de force set over 24 hours entirely within the confines of a tank, this is a grimy, anti-heroic picture of four typical young men scared shitless. Their view of the world is perilously restricted, glimpsed through the telescopic viewfinder and crosshairs of the gunner’s sights, which move laboriously with the tank’s heavy hydraulic turret.
"Widely dubbed the Das Boot of tank warfare, this powerful, indicting film was awarded the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival." (New Zealand International Film Festival 2010)
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72 %5,605 reviewsAudience score rating
"Visceral, torn-from-the-memory filmmaking that packs every punch except one to the heart, Lebanon is the boldest and best of the recent mini-wave of Israeli pics ("Beaufort," "Waltz With Bashir") set during conflicts between the two countries."
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Variety
Variety"In the tradition of Kippur and Waltz With Bashir, an Israeli film that skips patriotism and politics to show us war as seen by four terrified young guys in a tank. Powerful, compelling, scary."
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Total Film
Total Film"Lebanon is meticulous, nearly clinical in its attention to what happens in war -- specifically what happened in the first days of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 -- but it is also a palpably and intensely personal film."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"It's cinema from the heart, without doubt, but follows in some very well-worn war-movie footprints."
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The Guardian
The Guardian"Maoz was 20 years old when he served as an Israeli tank gunner during the invasion of Lebanon in 1982. Like World War II vet Fuller, he has the ability to fuse the immediacy and authenticity of his wartime experience with images bold enough to bear the weight of their metaphors."
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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert"Visceral and mesmerising"
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New Zealand Herald
New Zealand Herald"The emotional traumas of young Israeli soldiers drafted into the war with Lebanon in the 1980s are recounted through the eyes of a tank crew in this wrenching concentration of raw emotion directed by Samuel Maoz."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood Reporter"With luck The Hurt Locker's recent awards haul should draw audiences to this equally intense and actually more brilliant depiction of war. It marks the arrival of a sensational new talent behind the camera and is a debut that deserves to be seen."
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Empire Magazine
Empire MagazineLebanon | Details
Award winner- Winner of three awards (including the Golden Lion) at Venice Film Festival, 2009.
- Runtime
- 94
- Genre
- Drama, War
- Country of origin
- Germany, Israel, France, Lebanon
