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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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One has converted her room into an antiseptic gymnasium and...
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Sep 13, 2021 · Six years after taking a contemplative approach to the life of Emily Dickinson in A Quiet Passion, Terence Davies undertakes a thoughtful study of another poet, Siegfried Sassoon, in Benediction.
May 20, 2022 · Some will find passages in Benediction hard to endure while sober, yet at its best it’s ferociously good. Here’s a period drama that shows an iconic figure getting wizened, rather than wiser.
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Sep 19, 2021 · Not every temporal shift lands in this ambitiously conceived study of the gay British poet, but at its best it's sublime, with a tremendous star turn by Jack Lowden. By Guy Lodge. ‘Four Mothers...
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Jun 8, 2022 · British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret ...
Sep 15, 2021 · Review: Benediction Is a Rhapsodic Portrayal of Siegfried Sassoon’s Wounded Life. Terence Davies’s film is a rhapsodic portrayal of a milieu in which words are wielded like weapons by people who might otherwise be pariahs. by Keith Uhlich. September 15, 2021.
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Jun 2, 2022 · “Benediction,” which is about the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, is in some ways a more conventional affair. Sassoon, whose life stretched from the late Victorian era into the 1960s, is...
