Benjamin (2019)

03/15/2019Romance, Comedy, Drama1h 25m
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It's about my inability to love. But I'm fine now.

Overview

Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' at the London Film Festival when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Colin Morgan

    Benjamin

  2. Cast 1

    Phénix Brossard

    Noah

  3. Cast 1

    Joel Fry

    Stephen

  4. Cast 1

    Jessica Raine

    Billie

  5. Cast 1

    Jack Rowan

    Harry

  6. Cast 1

    Anna Chancellor

    Tessa

  7. Cast 1

    Nathan Stewart-Jarrett

    Paul

  8. Cast 1

    Michèle Belgrand

    Adrienne

  9. James Lailey

    Claude

I really did want to like this - but I wasn't really given anywhere near enough meat on the bones of the story or the characters to het to know. The comedy is pretty thin on the ground and the underlying storyline is clichéd and muddles love and lust in an unconvincing fashion. It may well be partially autobiographical, but that - and the best efforts of the eponymous and engaging Colin Morgan as well as Jack Rowan's heart-throb "Harry" - doesn't help us through it's mediocrity. It's a pity, but I think that maybe auteur Simon Amstell was just too close to this to make it work in any objective...

Status Released

Original LanguageEnglish 

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