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Jun 3, 2022 · Reviews. Benediction. Drama. 137 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2022. Odie Henderson. June 3, 2022. 5 min read. “Benediction” bears the distinctive stamp of its writer/director, Terence Davies, a man whose films feel more like poetic meditations on moods, emotions, and events than straightforward narratives.
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So help me, this is a genuinely funny movie. It’s the first...
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Sep 13, 2021 · Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play World War I English poet Siegfried Sassoon in his younger years and his ruminative old age, respectively, in this melancholy bio-drama. By David Rooney ...
Jun 2, 2022 · ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War. Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature. Share full...
Sep 19, 2021 · ‘Benediction’ Review: Terence Davies Finds Room for Himself in a Heartbreaking Siegfried Sassoon Biopic. Not every temporal shift lands in this ambitiously conceived study of the gay British...
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Mar 8, 2022 · Running alongside the film's more elegiac sweep is a cut-glass wit that marks many of these encounters and an uneasy melancholy generated by Sassoon's inability to fully reconcile his own feelings that culminates in his turning from the warm and witty Lowden to the barren-spirited Capaldi.
May 31, 2022 · “Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama. Terence Davies’s film embodies the artistic power and passion of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon. By Richard Brody. May 31, 2022.
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Jun 2, 2022 · “Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure.
