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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...
Jun 4, 2022 · The outstanding new Terrence Davies ' film Benediction, out now in theaters, is a biopic that is more patient and poetic in pacing than is typical of the form. It tells the true story of the late...
- Chase Hutchinson
- Movie Reviews Editor
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
May 17, 2022 · Benediction: Terence Davies’ Siegfried Sassoon portrait is a film of waning power. Davies’ second consecutive portrait of a poet, with Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi taking turns as the war veteran, has moments of tender power, but doesn’t reach into the heart of his art.
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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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 ...
