The Institute Benjamenta (1996)
Movie Info
Cast
as Lisa Benjamenta
as Jakob von Gunten
as Johannes Benjamenta
as Kraus
as Pepino
as Inigo
as Hebling
as Jörgenson
as Schilinski
as Null
Critic Reviews for The Institute Benjamenta
All Critics (7) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (0)
It is a demanding, even forbidding work, but richly rewarding and often surpassingly beautiful.
an abstract, uncanny experience which, like any good servant, is far too tactful just to blurt out its masters' secrets.
A beautiful, complex work that's more easily enjoyed in hindsight.
A one-of-a-kind education in creative filmmaking.
The film sets a nightmarish tone.
Audience Reviews for The Institute Benjamenta
Thinking he has no important calling in life, an ambitionless man enrolls in a school that trains servants; once there, he enters into an ambiguous, sexually repressed relationship with the headmistress and her brother. A beautiful looking black and white film that deliberately uses shallow focus and overexposure to tremendous artistic effect, though the sludgy, slow and surreal plot will turn the average moviegoer off.
Super Reviewer
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