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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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NEW. Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden). The writer and soldier was a complex man...
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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 · 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...
Jun 2, 2022 · Jack Lowden illuminates Sassoon's struggles with his sexuality, his art and his destiny in this moving, intensely personal drama from Terence Davies ('The House of Mirth,' 'A Quiet Passion').
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Jun 2, 2022 · Benediction | Official Trailer | In Theaters June 3. Instead, Davies understands that sometimes just acknowledging the things that keep us apart from those we love is enough to, as one character...
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Benediction is a 2021 biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon , along with Simon Russell Beale , Jeremy Irvine , Kate Phillips , Gemma Jones , and Ben Daniels .