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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, it...
May 19, 2022 · The poem is scathing of the fickle and pretentious. The film is confident that you are here in good faith, for all that it is unashamedly cultured.
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...
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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.
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 ...
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?
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Jun 3, 2022 · “Benediction” director Terence Davies’ splendidly scripted, boldly stylized biopic of the early 20th-century war poet Siegfried Sassoon is a movie madly in love with words in all their ...
