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1. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-row“Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama

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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 ...

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   May 19, 2022 · “The audience pricks an intellectual ear.” So goes the first line of Benediction, the mournful new biography of poet Siegfried Sassoon, directed by the singular Terence Davies. It is...

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4. www.bfi.org.uk › sight-and-sound › reviewsBenediction review: Terence Davies' Sassoon biopic | Sight ...

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   May 17, 2022 · Lacking the fluidity and richness of the director’s best films, Benediction makes its protagonist less as an animated individual than a symbolic victim figure. A flashback coda pins Sassoon firmly in his past, forever a casualty of an experience of war that the film never truly makes vivid.

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   Sep 19, 2021 · But this is the rare biopic that makes a virtue of trying to view a life in full, as opposed to zeroing in on a single telling moment in time: Over its roomy, expansive running time,...

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6. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsBenediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century ...

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   May 20, 2022 · Benediction isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor does it dramatise a single, pivotal event. It’s one man’s breathless search, careening back and forth through the chapters of his life in search...

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7. www.nytimes.com › 2022/06/02 › movies‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War

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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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   Is Benediction an autobiography?

   • The only steady ground in Benediction lies in Sassoon’s lines of poetry, recited by Lowden and played alongside newsreels of muddied soldiers staring out of the screen – at us, at Siegfried, at Davies too, perhaps. It’s a widely agreed-upon thesis that every one of the director’s films functions, in some way, as autobiography.

   Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies

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   Who wrote the first line of benediction?

   • Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “The audience pricks an intellectual ear.” So goes the first line of Benediction, the mournful new biography of poet Siegfried Sassoon, directed by the singular Terence Davies.

   Benediction review — a vividly moving portrait of Siegfried Sassoon

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   Is benediction a good movie?

   • 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 face of formidable authority, is depicted as contentious and acerbic.

   “Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama

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   Is 'pain the only Terror' in benediction a cradle-to-grave biopic?

   • “Pain is not the only terror,” laments the war poet Siegfried Sassoon in Benediction. But these agonies are nameless to him and, in Terence Davies ’s film about his life, we spend a great deal of time fruitlessly trying to put words to his sadness. Benediction isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor does it dramatise a single, pivotal event.

   Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies

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   Is benediction a cradle-to-grave biopic?

   • Benediction isn’t a cradle-to-grave biopic, nor does it dramatise a single, pivotal event. It’s one man’s breathless search, careening back and forth through the chapters of his life in search of something concrete and true. It’s beautiful, but only in the way it tends to its tragedies with such care. The film begins in 1914.

   Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies

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   Is benediction a melodrama?

   • In “Benediction,” Davies turns Sassoon’s life into a self-conscious Hollywood melodrama, a grand historical tale that makes its very historicity its subject—and a story of memory that reflects history in an original form. Befitting a movie about a great writer, “Benediction” is a film of copious and brilliant dialogue.

   “Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama

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9. www.historyextra.com › period › first-world-warBenediction: A Historian's Review Of Siegfried Sassoon Movie ...

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   May 24, 2022 · Terence Davies’ Benediction, a biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, portrays two iterations of the First World War poet: the embattled soldier of the trenches and the embittered elder statesman, but is the man behind the poetry to be seen?