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  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 2 h 17 m

Summary 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...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 2 h 17 m
  • 2022
  • PG-13
  • Roadside Attractions
  • 2 h 17 m

Benediction

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Summary 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...

Directed By: Terence Davies

Written By: Terence Davies

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 32 Critic Reviews
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94% Positive
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6% Mixed
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100
Jun 8, 2022
Beautifully designed and photographed, sensitively written and directed by England’s acclaimed Terence Davies, and impeccably acted by a distinguished cast that turns life into art, Benediction is one gorgeous motion picture.
By Rex Reed FULL REVIEW
91
May 31, 2022
There’s nothing about this film that is uplifting, but Davies’ handling of the material is so exquisite that the overbearing melancholy becomes, in the end, a work of poetry.
By Jordan Hoffman FULL REVIEW

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88
Sep 16, 2021
Terence Davies’s film is a rhapsodic portrayal of an upper-crust milieu in which words are wielded like weapons by people who might otherwise be pariahs.
By Keith Uhlich FULL REVIEW
80
May 17, 2022
Benediction finds both sorrow and hilariously withering wit in the eventful 
life of a famed wartime poet, offering some of the sharpest, nimblest dialogue of writer-director Terence Davies’ estimable career.
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75
Jun 8, 2022
For all his “slow cinema” indulgences and patience-testing “patience” as a story teller, the old master Davies, Lowden (“Dunkirk”) and the poet Sassoon mentored make sure Benediction leaves us with an emotional punch that no film this year can match.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
70
Sep 13, 2021
It’s an elegant piece of filmmaking, if a little too decorous at times.
By Wendy Ide FULL REVIEW
50
Jun 14, 2022
Mr. Davies’s wit is admirable, but his structure is nonexistent. He devises no problem to be solved, no goal to be met, no riddle to be answered. Occasionally we hear bits of Sassoon’s beautiful war poetry in voiceover, but it is irrelevant to most of the action.
By Kyle Smith FULL REVIEW
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Production Company British Film Institute (BFI), The National Lottery, BBC Film, EMU Films, Creative England, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment, Lipsync Productions, Reiver Pictures
Release Date Jun 3, 2022
Duration 2 h 17 m
Rating PG-13
Genres
Tagline Love is never still
Website https://benedictionfilm.co.uk/
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Awards

International Cinephile Society Awards
• 3 Wins & 8 Nominations
San Sebastián International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
GALECA: The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations

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