wDec 31, 2022

Film of the year has got to be Benediction.

I admit I’m biased: Terence Davies is my favourite director - gay, Liverpudlian, (a bit) grumpy, honest, unashamedly and somehow radically nostalgic, truly cinematic.

WW1 poet Siegfried Sassoon was a great choice of subject (though I can’t say I warmed to him) and the performances are beautiful.

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

Richard Brody on Terence Davies’s masterly film “Benediction,” which centers on the life of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his experiences during and after the First World War.

The New Yorker