'SOME BODY' HAS NO BODY AT ALL.

Byline: Bob Strauss Film Critic

HUMAN NATURE is an interesting subject. But only when it's interesting.

Stephanie Bennett is, like most people are, interested in her personal romantic problems. But most people just bore their best, most tolerant friends with the details. Those who write semi-autobiographical screenplays usually realize that it's incumbent to include insight or peculiarity that might make total strangers ... well, interested.

Starring herself and directed on particularly crummy video by her friend Henry Barrial, ``Some Body'' is not a documentary about a stupid period in Bennett's love life. Surely some artistry went into creating characters and situations that never really existed. But if the film achieves anything, it's a realistic if flat plateau of everygirl complaint about the difficulties of young singlehood in L.A. It's so tedious that it makes you forgive every fake, dishonest, entertaining and, ultimately, more perceptive moment in ``Bridget Jones's Diary.''

Bennett plays Samantha, a kindergarten teacher from Texas who drinks and flirts too much at parties for her wimpy boyfriend Anthony's (Jeramy Guillory) taste. Yet it's she who moves out of the home they share into an apartment complex in search of, essentially, better sex. She immediately achieves her goal with a neighbor she meets by the pool but, mission accomplished, then what?

Well, she wants to get back with Anthony. But he's already found another, hotter girlfriend, so Sam embarks on a regimen of ``how could you do this to me?'' phone harangues, more too-much-drinking-and-flirting, brief connections with guys who don't call and worse nights with bozos who turn into stalkers.

Watching ``Some Body'' is like listening to Alanis, only without the music or the verbal intelligence or a break. To help viewers relate to Sam's emotional (not to mention chemical) disorientation, Barrial serves up a smorgasbord of jerk motion, jump cuts, speed variations, confessions to the camera lens, jittery handheld footage and other flourishes that all film-school professors should instruct their first-year students to never use in actual moviemaking.

As for the general level of ``Some Body's'' acting, it's not terrible. It's just not interesting, either.

SOME BODY - One star

(Not rated: sex, nudity, language, drug use)

Starring: Stephanie Bennett, Jeramy Guillory, Laura Katz, Sean Michael Allen.

Director: Henry Barrial.

Running time: 1 hr. 27 min.

Playing: Sunset 5, West Hollywood.

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Samantha (Stephanie Bennett) grows tired of her long-term boyfriend, Anthony (Jeramy Guillory), in Henry Barrial's ``Some Body.''