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Friends with Benefits: An Anthology of Four New American Filmmakers
February 5 - 11, 2016
Shot in richly textured 16mm, Crotty’s queer soap opera chronicles the tragicomic plight of frail, lonely Roger, who seeks comfort and companionship from the sexually frustrated army wives in a remote military post in the woods while his husband carries out a mission in Djibouti. A New Directors/New Films 2015 selection.
Stick around for free beer at the Film Center on 2/5 and 2/6 from 8–9pm.
The feature debut of American-born, Paris-based writer-director Benjamin Crotty marks the arrival of something rare in contemporary cinema: a wholly original sensibility. Expanding his 2012 short of the same name, Crotty chronicles the tragicomic plight of frail, lonely Roger, stranded at a remote military post in the woods while his husband carries out a mission in Djibouti. Over four seasons, Roger (Andy Gillet, the androgynous star of Eric Rohmer’s The Romance of Astrea and Celadon) seeks comfort and companionship from the army wives in the leisurely yet sexually frustrated community, while trying to keep a lid on his volatile adopted daughter, Roxy. Shot in richly textured 16mm, Crotty’s queer soap opera playfully estranges and deranges any number of narrative conventions, finding surprising wells of emotion amid the carnal comedy. A New Directors/New Films 2015 selection.
[A] unique cinematic vision, combining animated flights of fancy with 16mm realism, that continually dislodges viewer expectation.
—Paul Dallas, Film Comment
A truly original oddity.
—Sarah Salovaara, Filmmaker magazine
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