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Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995)
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"A Great Feast Of Fetishized Imagery."-New York Magazine
Heralded as "the strangest, prettiest, most mesmerizing debut since Eraserhead" by The Village Voice, Institute Benjamenta is the first live action feature from acclaimed animators the Brothers Quay (Street Of Crocodiles).
Institute Benjamenta combines the fantastic, the mystical and the fairytale in a beautiful, shadowy reverie as astonishing and unique as any of the Quays' animations.The titular academy is a dilapidated, moribund boarding school for the training of servants, whose curriculum consists of the endless repetition of one single lesson.Jakob (Mark Rylance, Angels And Insects) enrolls at the Institute and becomes embroiled in the world of his fellow pupils and that of the sib | | |