Ben X
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 30 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 10, 2009
- Originally Released: 2008
- Label: Film Movement
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Greg Timmermans, Laura Verlinden & Marijke Pinoy | |
Performer: | Greg Goossen, Titus De Voogdt, Maarten Claeyssens, Jakob Beks & Gilles De Schryver | |
Directed by | Nic Balthazar | |
Screenwriting by | Nic Balthazar & Lou Berghmans | |
Composition by | Philippe Ravoet | |
Produced by | Peter Bouckaert & Erwin Provoost | |
Director of Photography: | Praga Khan |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] shrewd exercise in expectation-subversion, although beneath its pulled rugs lies a heavy morality tale....Emotionally effective.
Empire
The journey is pretty bleak, rarely varies in tone and as for Ben, just as he struggles to relate to the world, how are we meant to relate to him?
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The Spectator
Theater and film critic Nic Balthazar's BEN X is a brilliant, harrowing first feature that plunges the viewer headlong into Ben's chaotic existence.
Los Angeles Times
The ambitious themes are treated with great sensitivity and imaginative power in a tale that is both touching and beguiling, pushing beyond the form and frame of conventional feature-length fiction.
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Electric Sheep
Rating: 2.5/5 --
There's not a moment of warmth or ease in Ben X, Nic Balthazar's punishingly cacophonous debut.
New York Times
The best movie I've seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes from Belgium?
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Village Voice
Rating: B --
Writer/director Nic Balthazar, adapting his own novel, would fool most as a first time filmmaker, as "Ben X" compellingly pulls one into Ben's world...
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Reeling Reviews
Product Description:
Boasting impressive performances, this Flemish drama was Belgium's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film. As a result of his autism, teenaged Ben (Greg Timmermans, making his debut) spends his days as the target for school bullies. He finds solace in an online computer game where he is no longer the victim, but a hero. When his online love, Scarlite (Laura Verlinden), appears to him in real life, he has new motivation to face his oppressors. This is the directorial debut for Nic Balthazar.
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- UPC: 616892966425
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