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

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AUDIENCE SCORE
User Ratings: 6,745
3 stars out of 5 -- [A] shrewd exercise in expectation-subversion, although beneath its pulled rugs lies a heavy morality tale....Emotionally effective.
Empire
Sep 1, 2008
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? Full Review
The Spectator
Aug 23, 2018
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
Nov 28, 2008
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. Full Review
Electric Sheep
Sep 26, 2017
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
Oct 24, 2008
The best movie I've seen about teen angst since Donnie Darko comes from Belgium? Full Review
Village Voice
Oct 22, 2008
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... Full Review
Reeling Reviews
Mar 2, 2009

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
  • Shipping Weight: 0.19/lbs (approx)
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