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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life

1995, Movie, 1h 44min

Jakob arrives at the Institute Benjamenta (run by brother and sister Johannes and Lisa Benjamenta) to learn to become a servant. With seven other men, he studies under Lisa: absurd lessons of movement, drawing circles, and servility. He asks for a better room. No other students arrive and none leave for employment. Johannes is unhappy, imperious, and detached from the school's operation. Lisa is beautiful, at first tightly controlled, then on the verge of breakdown. There's a whiff of incest. Jakob is drawn to Lisa, and perhaps she to him. As winter sets in, she becomes catatonic. Things get worse; Johannes notes that all this has happened since Jakob came. Is there any cause and effect?

"Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life" — drama movie produced in Germany, Japan and UK and released in 1995. It has a great rating on IMDb: 7 stars out of 10. It is a feature-length film with a runtime of 1h 44min. "Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life" is not currently available to stream in Singapore. Save it and we'll notify you when it's available! Make sure to turn on push notifications as well.

Country: Germany,Japan,United Kingdom

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Reviews

Critic Marc Savlov

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As with all of the Brothers' films, you leave feeling slightly shaken, a bit disturbed, and troubled as though you had just awoken from a bitter dream you can't quite recall.

Read full review at The Austin Chronicle

Critic Kim Newman

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Your mind keeps skittering off the narrative, as zombie-like characters shuffle like the slaves of Metropolis, but the film is mesmerising.

Read full review at Empire

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