Project Detail

Benjamin

Synopsis

A comedy about being weird and struggling for a connection. The film opens as Benjamin, a rising star filmmaker, is on the brink of premiering his difficult second film ’No Self' when Billie, his hard drinking publicist, introduces him to a mesmeric French musician called Noah.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2018 - Laugh Strand - World premiere

Details

Year: 2018
Type of film: Features
Running time: 85 mins
Format: Digital
Director: Simon Amstell 1st Feature
Producer: Alexandra Breede, Dominic Dromgoole, Louise Simpson
Editor: Robin Peters
Screenwriter: Simon Amstell
Director of Photography: David Pimm
Production Designer: Hannah Purdy Foggin
Sound: Ben Baird
Composer: James Righton
Principal cast: Colin Morgan, Anna Chancellor, Phenix Brossard, Jessica Raine, Joel Fry

Genre

LGBTQIA+ Comedy

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Open Palm Pictures

Head of Production
Open Palm Films
3rd Floor
5 Percy Street
London
W1T 1DG

Sales Company

Starline Entertainment

The Old Town Hall
213 Haverstock Hill
London
NW3 4QP

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Brave as whiskey Bold as brass A laugh like a bell And a warmth unmatched, built hearth upon hearth Your house rumbles Excerpt - 'The Public House Rumbles' by Alexandra Ewing Shot in the single location of a Glaswegian pub, PUBLIC HOUSE is a sequence of vignettes, some characters recurring and others not, just like real life. A myriad of eccentric and troubled souls pass through, looking for a drink, solace, a conversation, someone to love, an audience, sex, an explanation, revenge, or just a place to be. The film delves deeper than the sum of it’s parts, asking existential questions. How did we end up here? Why do we do what we do? Should we try something else? Ultimately the film is about committing to something. To an idea, a place, an affair, grief, a philosophy, family, a tall tale, loss, love, a joke, a friend or simply trying to make it through the day.

Comedy Drama