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Parents need to know that Benediction is a moving biopic that chronicles the life of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon and his life as a gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in the U.K. Set across many decades, the young Sassoon is played by Jack Lowden, while Peter Capaldi portrays the character….
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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,...
Jan 15, 2023 · Benediction (2022), the latest feature from British filmmaker Terence Davies, transforms the life of its central subject, the war poet Siegfried Sassoon (played in his younger years by Jack Lowden, and in his old age by Peter Capaldi), into an impressionistic tone poem.
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 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 also the...
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 ...
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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?
