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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 .

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   Summaries. 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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   Jun 3, 2022 · Advertisement. The elder Sassoon is a bitter man who yells at his son, George ( Richard Goulding) and has a tenuous relationship with his wife Hester Gatty ( Gemma Jones ). George is stunned that his previously non-religious father has decided to join the Catholic Church. “It’s something permanent,” he tells George.

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   Dec 23, 2021 · 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.

   • 6.6/10 (3.8K)
   • Genre: Biography, Drama, History

   • Director: Terence Davies
   • Release Date: 2021-12-23

6. www.latimes.com › entertainment-arts › movies'Benediction' review: A shattering drama from Terence Davies ...

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   Jun 2, 2022 · “Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure.

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   May 31, 2022 · A gay man at a time when homosexuality was illegal in Britain, Sassoon (played, as a young man, by Jack Lowden) was a part of what one lover calls “the shadow life,” a glittering underground of...

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   What is 'benediction' by Terence Davies about?

   • “Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon’s own art.

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   What makes benediction a good movie?

   • “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. It’s as if we are floating above the material, touching down in different places at the filmmaker’s discretion.

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   Who plays Siegfried Sassoon in benediction?

   • 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 was Davies' final film before his death in October 2023.

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   What is Benediction about?

   • Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber reams of old war footage, “Benediction” is, among other things, a mournful tribute to the wounded and fallen, suffused with a particular compassion for those survivors who, like Sassoon, never shook off the trauma of what they experienced.

   'Benediction' review: A shattering drama from Terence Davies - Los

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9. www.independent.co.uk › arts-entertainment › filmsBenediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century ...

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   May 20, 2022 · Dir: Terence Davies. Starring: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Calam Lynch, Tom Blyth, Kate Phillips. 12A, 137 minutes. “Pain is not the only terror,” laments the...