Benediction
2h 17m | PG13 | Biography, Drama
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Release Date
June 03, 2022
Accessibility
ALD
Director
Terence Davies
Cast
Jeremy Irvine, Peter Capaldi, Kate Phillips, Jack Lowden, Edmund Kingsley, Harry Lawtey, Calam Lynch
Distributor
Roadside Attractions
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 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.
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