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It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, and Ben Daniels. Benediction was Davies's final film before his death in October 2023.
Jun 8, 2022 · Siegfried Sassoon, played by Jack Lowden (pictured right) in Benediction, was a celebrated poet who drew on his experiences in World War I. (Supplied: Rialto)
Jun 3, 2022 · Having a poet for a subject only heightens that feeling; the images are supplemented by the verse of Siegfried Sassoon, read by the two actors who play him, Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi. Davies hops between Lowden’s past and Capaldi’s current timeframes, visually morphing the younger actor into the older one on occasion.
May 17, 2022 · Following A Quiet Passion (2016), his intensely interior film about Emily Dickinson, Benediction is Terence Davies’ second consecutive portrait of a poet: in this case, Siegfried Sassoon, who was born in 1886 – coincidentally, the year of Dickinson’s death.
May 20, 2022 · Starring: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Tom Blyth, Kate Phillips. 12A, 137 minutes. “Pain is not the only terror,” laments the war poet...
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May 19, 2022 · So goes the first line of Benediction, the mournful new biography of poet Siegfried Sassoon, directed by the singular Terence Davies. It is also the opening of Sassoon’s “Concert Interpretation”,...
Sep 19, 2021 · A decorated British soldier in the First World War, Siegfried Sassoon achieved renown as a poet via impassioned anti-war verses that landed him in a military psychiatric hospital; later, he ...
