Beaufort

Dark Fissures of an Israeli Soldier’s Soul

THE Israeli director Joseph Cedar wrote the first scenes of “Beaufort,” a war movie, while in a military jail. He was incarcerated for a couple of weeks, he said, because he had refused to join his combat unit for a stint of reserve duty. “Not for moral or ideological reasons,” he said. “I just felt I was no longer a soldier.”
That was around 2001, about 12 years after he had finished his compulsory army service as a paratrooper, much of it spent in Lebanon. His wife, Vered, was pregnant. “I was turning into a parent,” Mr. [...]

di Isabel Kershner, articolo completo (6471 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 20 gennaio 2008