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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 ...
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May 31, 2022 · Befitting a movie about a great writer, “Benediction” is a film of copious and brilliant dialogue. The talk is often confrontational and lacerating—Sassoon, even in his youth and even in the...
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.
May 18, 2022 · Terence Davies’s Benediction is a perfect portrait of an outsider. In this new biopic of the wartime poet Siegfried Sassoon, Davies beautifully renders, in quasi-autobiography, a life unredeemed.
May 19, 2022 · One of Britain’s few true Michelin-starred directors, Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, Of Time and the City) has always refused to talk down to his audience. His new film is vividly moving...
May 12, 2022 · A benediction is a prayer for divine help. For any lover of beautifully crafted cinema with real emotional charge, Davies’s latest will feel a lot like an answer. In UK cinemas Fri May 13.
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Jun 8, 2022 · It carefully chronicles the turbulent life and times of Siegfried Sassoon, the revered British anti-war poet-novelist-philosopher and political activist, like the meticulous peeling of an orange.
