Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream That One Calls Human Life 1995

Sensity:	No
Imdb rate:	7.0
Imdb Votes:	1,982
Duration:	105 mins
Year:	1995
Language:	Afrikaans, Spanish, English, German
Genre:	Drama
Country:	United Kingdom, Japan, Germany
Director:	Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Weiser Quay
Writers:	Alan Passes, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay
Actors:	Mark Rylance , Alice Krige , Gottfried John ,
Awards:	4 wins & 3 nominations

Description:

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 ***. 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?