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     Jack Lowden

     Young Siegfried Sassoon
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     Peter Capaldi

     Siegfried Sassoon
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     Thom Ashley

     Hamo Sassoon
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     Simon Russell Beale

     Robbie Ross
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     Orlando Jopling

     Conductor
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     Harry Lawtey

     Bobby Andrews

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   Is benediction a true story?

   • It isn't an easy watch, but Benediction uncovers a profoundly affecting drama in the real-life story of a combat veteran whose poetry warned against the horrors of war. Written and directed by acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies, Benediction explores the turbulent life of WWI poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden).

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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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   Is benediction a melodrama?

   • 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 history in an original form. Befitting a movie about a great writer, “Benediction” is a film of copious and brilliant dialogue.

   “Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama

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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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3. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › benediction-movieBenediction movie review & film summary (2022) | Roger Ebert

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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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   Synopsis. 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 . Cast. Jack Lowden as Siegfried Sassoon.

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     Benediction review: Terence Davies tends to his 20th century tragedies with care

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   Jun 3, 2022 · Synopsis 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...

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   • Director: Terence Davies

   • Content Rating: PG-13
   • Actors: Jack Lowden

7. www.nytimes.com › movies › benediction-review‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War

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   Jun 2, 2022 · ‘Benediction’ Review: A Poet’s Life, in Love and War. Terence Davies’s latest film is a biography of Siegfried Sassoon, whose writing about World War I changed British literature. Share full...

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   May 22, 2022 · Benediction review – artful Siegfried Sassoon biopic full of unresolved yearning. The war poet’s life provides rich material for director Terence Davies to explore his preoccupations with...

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   Sep 19, 2021 · An extended romance with entertainer Ivor Novello (an inventively cast, kohl-eyed Jeremy Irvine, dishing out caustic bon mots with an elegant, exhausted shrug) awakens his most carnal impulses but...

10. www.newyorker.com › culture › the-front-row“Benediction,” Reviewed: The Bio-Pic as Radical Melodrama

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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...