Institute Benjamenta
1995 · Movie · 104 min. · United Kingdom
Brilliant English animators The Brothers Quay create their first feature-length live-action film in this tale of a dilapidated boarding school for the teaching of servants run by a brother and sister in which the curriculum is the repetition of one single lesson. When Jacob, a young man, enrolls in the school, he becomes entangled in the strange lives of the students and headmasters alike. Called by director Terry Gilliam, "The most visually beautiful and hauntingly humorous film I have seen in the last 300 years.
Direction Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay
Cast Mark Rylance · Alice Krige · Gottfried John · Daniel Smith · Joseph Alessi · Jonathan Stone · César Sarachu · Peter Lovstrom · Uri Roodner · Peter Whitfield
Soundtrack Lech Jankowski
Screenplay Timothy Quay · Stephen Quay · Alan Passes · Robert Walser
Cinematography Nicholas D. Knowland
Original title Institute Benjamenta (This Dream People Call Human Life)
Also known as Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life
6.4
180 votes (FilmAffinity)
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