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Plot

Pierre Clementi plays the title role in the French-filmed Benjamin. A callow teenager of the 18th century, Benjamin spends a summer with his worldly relatives on their summer estate. An orphan girl (Catherine Deneuve) living on a neighboring estate, inaugurates an affair with Benjamin. In true La Ronde fashion, the girl then sleeps with a landed-gentry (Michel Piccoli), who sleeps with a countess (Michelle Morgan), who ends up in the sack with her nephew Benjamin. Benjamin has also been released under the faintly misleading title The Diary of an Innocent Boy.
MPAA Rating:
Genre(s):
Drama
Run Time:
90min.
Director(s):
Michel Deville
Starring:
Francine Bergé , Pierre Clémenti , Catherine Deneuve , Anna Gael
Themes:
Innocence Lost,Sexual Awakening
Tone:
Lavish,Lyrical,Sexy
Keywords:
bachelor,extramarital-affair,orphan,sex,sexual-awakening,teenagers
Language:
French