Product Review

Presented in a gorgeous new director-approved transfer, The Quay Brothers Institute Benjamenta combines the fantastic and the mystical in a shadowy reverie as uniquely astonishing as any of their celebrated animations. The titular institute is a dilapidated, moribund boarding school for the training of servants, whose curriculum consists of the endless repetition of a single lesson. Jakob (Tony® Award-winner Mark Rylance) enrolls at the Institute, and becomes gradually embroiled in the world of the enigmatic siblings who run the school: the sadistic Johannes Benjamenta (Fassbinder regular Gottfried John) and his sorrowful sister Lisa (Star Trek s Borg Queen, Alice Krige). Inspired by the writings of Swiss author Robert Walser, the Quays first feature film is a striking, exquisitely realized anti-fairytale that illuminates a fragile world shimmering with strange beauty and hypnotic power.

DVD Special Features Include:

New restored HD master, director supervised and enhanced for widescreen viewing

Eurydice, She So Beloved, a 2007 Quay Brothers short film

Behind-the-scenes footage

Original theatrical trailer

English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired (SDH)

Exclusive digipak packaging, and an extensive booklet