Why it may be worth watching
- Benjamin combines Romance and Comedy elements in one feature.
- The principal cast includes Colin Morgan, Phénix Brossard, Joel Fry.
- Viewers currently rate it 6.1/10 from 92 votes.
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It's about my inability to love. But I'm fine now.
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.
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Best suited to viewers looking for Romance, Comedy, Drama. Its shorter runtime also makes it easier to fit into one sitting.
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‘Benjamin’ is an enjoyable rom-com, filled with equal amounts of sweet moments and tense ones.
- Chris dos Santos
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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…
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 or less awkward fashion.
This was an all right movie, but many of the characters were very annoying or acted very oddly during the entire movie, in a way that most people wouldn't act in real life.
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