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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.
Sep 13, 2021 · Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play WWI English poet Siegfried Sassoon in his younger years and old age in 'Benediction,' a melancholy bio-drama.
May 17, 2022 · Benediction: Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon portrait is a film of waning power. Davies’ second consecutive portrait of a poet, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi taking turns as the war veteran, has moments of tender power, but doesn’t reach into the heart of his art.
Benediction. Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Terence Davies
- 2021-12-23
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.
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden).
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- Biography, History, Drama, War, LGBTQ+
- PG-13
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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...
