24 Sep 2008
The Class
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life
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?
Top Billed Cast
Alice Krige Lisa Benjamenta
Mark Rylance Jakob
Gottfried John Herr Benjamenta
Daniel Smith Kraus
Joseph Alessi Pepino
Jonathan Stone Hebling
César Saratxu Inigo
Peter Lovstrom Jorgenson
Uri Roodner Schilinski
Peter Whitfield
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