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- In contrast with other more conventional biopics that throw everything at the wall, Benediction leaves more of a lasting impact by narrowing in on a compelling core of loss and love.
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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,...
- Guy Lodge
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, it...
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?
- Elinor Evans
Jun 2, 2022 · Even the more intimate passages in “Benediction” — the affairs with Novello and Tennant, and the heartache that follows the end of each one — are more restrained than passionate.
Jun 2, 2022 · “Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure.
- justin.chang@latimes.com
- Film Critic
Jun 8, 2022 · In Benediction, the ninth feature from the great British director (who made his auspicious debut in 1988 with autobiographical tone poem Distant Voices, Still Lives), archival footage – of men who grip their bayonets and stare into the camera lens; of corpses slumped and left to rot – subs in for the combat through which Sassoon's poetic and mor...
May 12, 2022 · A glidingly elegant, emotionally ransacking story of queerness, repression and the past – in other words, a Terence Davies film – this Siegfried Sassoon biopic reaches out beyond the war poetry...
