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Benediction

Director – Terence Davies – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 137m **** The life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, his homosexual lifestyle and his heterosexual marriage – out in cinemas on Friday, May 20th It’s been five years since Davies’ previous film A Quiet Passion (2016) and the curious thing is, […]

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Benediction

Glum heroes BenedictionDirected by Terence DaviesCertificate 12a, 137 minutesReleased 20 May Films about poets are few; however, the director Terence Davies has now made two in a row as different as their historical subjects. The earlier A Quiet Passion (Reform, April 2017) concerns the introverted, isolated, American spinster Emily Dickinson while the current Benediction is […]

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