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Quietly devastating: Benediction reviewed

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

21 May 2022

9:00 AM

Benediction

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Terence Davies’s Benediction is a biopic of the first world war poet Siegfried Sassoon told with great feeling and tenderness. The result is quietly powerful, quietly devastating and, happily, is not afflicted by the usual clichés that afflict this genre. Sassoon never, for example, crumples what he’s just written and throws it across the room.

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