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Cinema

Tender, sweet, affecting: Simon Amstell’s Benjamin reviewed

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

16 March 2019

9:00 AM

Simon Amstell’s Benjamin is a romantic comedy about a young filmmaker whose second feature is about to première, and he’s nervous. Don’t be, says his producer (Anna Chancellor). ‘Some people,’ she expands comfortingly, ‘will like it and some people won’t be into it, but each and every one of them is going to die, aren’t they? Because we are all going to die.’

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