Who is Benjamin Button, you may ask? I should say, this is one film which you should not fail to watch this year. I was invited to attend the Press Screening of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button last Monday at the Gateway Cineplex 10 in Araneta Center. The film revolves in a very touching story about life, love, and relationships. Here’s a write-up about the film:

“I was born under unusual circumstances.”

And so begins “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards:  A man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time.  From New Orleans at the end of World War I in 1918, into the 21st century, on a journey as unusual as any man’s life can be, the film tells the grand tale of a not so ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds and loses, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Paramount Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures Present A Kennedy/Marshall Production A David Fincher Film, “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button,” starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Jason Flemyng, Elias Koteas and Tilda Swinton.  The film is directed by David Fincher.  The screenplay is by Eric Roth, with screen story by Eric Roth and Robin Swicord, based on the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald.  The producers are Kathleen Kennedy, Frank Marshall and Ceán Chaffin.

The behind-the-scenes team is led by director of photography Claudio Miranda, production designer Donald Graham Burt, editors Kirk Baxter and Angus Wall, and costume designer Jacqueline West.  The music is by Alexandre Desplat.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button opens in Philippine cinemas today. Total running time is more than two and a half hours.

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