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Benediction (15) Borderlines Film Festival – Preview
9th March 2022 7:45 pm
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In his first film about an openly gay man, Terence Davies explores the complex and contradictory life of poet Siegfried Sassoon.
Best remembered as an anti-war poet, the young Sassoon, in a marvellously understated portrayal by Jack Lowden, survives the traumas of service in World War I to enjoy an active sex life during the Roaring Twenties – love affairs with Ivor Novello and Bright Young Thing Stephen Tennant, among others – to a compromised and somewhat bitter old age.
Davies (The Long Day Closes, Distant Voices, Still Lives and Of Time and the City) uses a characteristically reserved, collage approach (narrative vignettes, expressive interludes, archive
footage, readings of Sassoon’s poetry) to build a composite picture of both a remarkable individual and a queer man living through the cramping restrictions of the early twentieth century.
Preview courtesy of Vertigo Releasing
DIRECTOR: Terence Davies
STARRING: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Jeremy Irvine, Julian Sands
UK, 2021
2 HOURS 17 MINUTES
CERT 15
FILM NOTES: Click HERE to download
