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Film Of The Week: Benjamin
MARIA DUARTE recommends a bitter-sweet comedy about love, pretentiousness in the art world and the perils of film-making
If you can see past the relentless commodification you will be rewarded by enormously powerful work, suggests JENNY MITCHELL
CHRIS SEARLE revels in the one-off collaboration between an American polymath and a British Muslim, and detects the presence of their revolutionary forebear
GORDON PARSONS revels in an ebullient production of Shakespeare’s magical comedy
BRENT CUTLER welcomes a thoughtful analysis of the Erdogan regime, viewed through the evolving history of a neighbourhood in Istanbul
GORDON PARSONS regrets the price, but is dazzled by an outstandingly ambitious study of the way art restoration in particular, and culture in general was weaponised by the Nazis
Benjamin (15)
Directed by Simon Amstell
SIMON AMSTELL wears his heart on his protagonist’s sleeve in Benjamin.
At a special Q&A screening at the Curzon Soho — where this film within a film was partly shot, a surreal experience — Amstell revealed how he wanted to figure out what was “wrong” with him in his 20s in the film and how it is inspired by former relationships.
It follows rising young film-maker Benjamin (Colin Morgan) as he is thrown into emotional and existential turmoil by a blossoming romance with young French musician and singer Noah (Phenix Brossard) and the upcoming premiere at the London Film Festival of his long-awaited follow-up feature entitled No Self.
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