Benediction
Over its roomy, expansive running time, 'Benediction' rather devastatingly shows how we become strangers to ourselves as the years march by.
Benediction
Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden). The writer and soldier was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government's continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front, and he became one of the leading war poets of the era. Adored by members of the aristocracy as well as stars of London's literary and stage world, he embarked on affairs with several men as he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality. At the same time, broken by the horror of war, he made his life's journey a quest for salvation, trying to find it within the conformity of marriage and religion.
Genre
Bio-pic,
Drama,
War,
Poetry
Runtime
137
Language
English
Director
Terence Davies
Writer(s)
Terence Davies
Cast
Jack Lowden,
Peter Capaldi,
Simon Russell Beale,
Jeremy Irvine,
Calem Lynch,
Tom Blyth,
Kate Phillips,
Geraldine James,
Anton Lesser,
Suzanne Bertish,
Matthew Tennyson,
Julian Sands
Awards:
Winner, Jury Prize ~ Best Screenplay, San Sebastián International Film Festival
Nominee, Golden Seashell ~ Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival
Nominee, Sebastiane Award ~ Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival
MOREFEATURED REVIEW
A.A. Dowd, Empire Magazine
Droll banter is not a pleasure one might traditionally expect from the achingly sad films of Terence Davies. And yet Liverpool’s melancholy master of autobiography ('The Long Day Closes') and adaptation ('The Deep Blue Sea') has been in close touch lately with his inner Oscar Wilde, finding a fount ...
Played at
Royal 6.03.22 - 6.23.22
Playhouse 7 6.03.22 - 6.16.22
Town Center 5 6.03.22 - 6.16.22
Claremont 5 6.10.22 - 6.16.22
Newhall 6.10.22 - 6.16.22
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