“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure. The pleasure and the sadness are ...
The hell where youth and laughter go. A decorated veteran of the Western Front before he turned conscientious objector, Sassoon knew of what he spoke. Sprinkling passages of his poetry over somber ...
The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon led a life of sharply angled turns. Despite his Wagnerian name, Sassoon was the quintessential English playboy (fox-hunting, cricket) who, like many others of ...
Davies follows his Emily Dickinson biopic "A Quiet Passion" with another painfully tender film about a kindred spirit. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Toronto ...
He is considered by many critics to be England's greatest living filmmaker, even though he has made less than ten movies. Terence Davies would also be on anyone's list of the foremost gay ...
LONDON (Reuters) - A World War One bravery medal awarded to Siegfried Sassoon -- which the anti-war poet is widely thought to have thrown in the River Mersey -- has been discovered in an attic and ...
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