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- BENEDICTION explores the turbulent life of first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered writer-director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives).
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Benediction is a 2021 biographical romantic drama film written and directed by Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon , along with Simon Russell Beale , Jeremy Irvine , Kate Phillips , Gemma Jones , and Ben Daniels .
BENEDICTION. In 1917, English war poet Siegfried Sassoon’s attempt at a conscientious objection leads him to being committed to a military sanatorium to recover from a more socially-acceptable ‘nervous breakdown’.
BENEDICTION explores the turbulent life of first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered writer-director Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives).
Benediction: Directed by Terence Davies. With Jack Lowden, Thom Ashley, Orlando Jopling, Christopher Naylor. Legendary 20th century English war poet Siegfried Sassoon embarks on a life-long quest for personal salvation through his experiences with family, war, his writing, and destructive relationships. True salvation can only come from within.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Terence Davies
- 2021-12-23
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 of...
- 2 min
- Clarisse Loughrey
Jun 3, 2022 · Benediction. 137 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 2022. Odie Henderson. June 3, 2022. 5 min read. “Benediction” bears the distinctive stamp of its writer/director, Terence Davies, a man whose films feel more like poetic meditations on moods, emotions, and events than straightforward narratives.
Oct 8, 2023 · Benediction mobilises Davies’ characteristic mode and sensibility: through subtly revealing dialogue, elegant crossfades and richly ironic musical selections, memory, narrative and identity ebb and flow, with and against one another.
