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Peace and self-acceptance
- His story is one of a troubled man in a fractured world searching for peace and self-acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to the modern world as it did then.
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The film follows the life of Siegfried Sassoon, a British poet and decorated World War I combat veteran who was sent to a psychiatric facility for his anti-war stance. He had love affairs with several men during the 1920s, married, had a son, and converted to Catholicism.
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).
May 24, 2022 · Benediction: a case of Sassoon the man v Sassoon the legend. 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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May 31, 2022 · In “Benediction,” Davies turns Sassoon’s life into a self-conscious Hollywood melodrama, a grand historical tale that makes its very historicity its subject—and a story of memory that reflects...
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.
Benediction. 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.
May 19, 2022 · 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 opening of Sassoon’s “Concert...
