Lebanon Movie review: "Lebanon," written and directed by Samuel Maoz and the winner of the Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion, is the 3rd Israeli film of the last few years to deal persuasively with the psychological aftermath of Israel's traumatic 1982 invasion of its neighbor.
After its two first-rate predecessors, Joseph Cedar's "Beaufort" and Ari Folman's " Waltz With Bashir," it may seem like there can't be anything for a new project to say about that war. But "Lebanon" is a different kind of motion picture, and a different kind of audience experience.
Beaufort | 
Waltz with Bashir |
While all this and more is taking place, the four young men in the tank are having mental breakdowns, each in his own way, as war proves unimaginably dirtier, harder and uglier than they anticipated. A sign posted inside may say "Man is steel, the tank is only iron," but "Lebanon" tells us that the reality is quite different. Source
