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Jun 3, 2022 · 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. It’s as if we are floating above the material, touching down in different places at the filmmaker’s discretion.
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Sep 13, 2021 · Terence Davies’ ‘Benediction’: Film Review | TIFF 2021. Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi play World War I English poet Siegfried Sassoon in his younger years and his ruminative old age ...
May 20, 2022 · The closeted Sassoon, having become a vocal opponent of the war, (as well as the big whigs prolonging it), winds up in a psychiatric hospital, where he meets gay, state-educated, Wilfred Owen ...
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Sep 19, 2021 · ‘Benediction’ Review: Terence Davies Finds Room for Himself in a Heartbreaking Siegfried Sassoon Biopic Reviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival (Competition), Sept. 18, 2021. (Also in Toronto ...
- Guy Lodge
Jun 2, 2022 · June 2, 2022 1:49 PM PT. “Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure ...
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Jun 2, 2022 · Up until that moment, we’ve thought about the war, heard it rendered in poetry and caught glimpses of its brutality. And then, through the filter of Sassoon’s tormented memory, we feel it ...