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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.
May 31, 2022 · Davies’s new film, “Benediction,” which opens Friday, is an inside-out bio-pic of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon; it follows many of the familiar contours of the genre, but, above all ...
Sep 13, 2021 · They barely touch, but this is by far the most sensual image in Benediction. And it’s Owen’s poem “Disabled” that pushes Siegfried to the shattering catharsis of the film’s final scene ...
Sep 19, 2021 · The result is breathtakingly vast and flawed, moving in all senses of the word. For a film still characterized by Davies’ stately formalism, “Benediction” feels constantly in anguished ...
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May 20, 2022 · Tim Robey Film Critic. 20 May 2022 12:05pm BST. It’s hard to imagine a Terence Davies film that’s not deeply personal in some way, but Benediction, his uncompromising new biopic of Siegfried ...
May 20, 2022 · Music, as ever with this director, provides lovely jolts. Archive footage of cattle, and British soldiers being treated like cattle, accompanies the song, Riders in the Sky (A Cowboy Legend ...
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Mar 8, 2022 · Terence Davies' filmmaking has always had a lyrical sweep so this biopic of Siegfried Sassoon fits him like pen in hand, ringing with poetic rhythm that forges connections beyond the everyday.
