Most biopics are thuddingly prosaic: There’s a lot of “this happened, then that happened,” performed by a famous person covering themselves in latex in an attempt to resemble another famous person. In ...

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 ...

“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 problem with most films about writers is that they’re so concerned with biographical data and dramatic comings and goings that there’s no room left for words, which aren’t just an author’s stock ...

The outstanding new Terrence Davies' film Benediction, out now in theaters, is a biopic that is more patient and poetic in pacing than is typical of the form. It tells the true story of the late poet ...

(JTA) – “Benediction,” a new biopic of the British anti-war poet Siegfried Sassoon, opens with a Sassoon poem called “Concert Interpretation.” In it, the author describes a British audience’s ...

British soldiers from the Royal Welch Fusiliers and the Cheshire Regiment in a Belgian town on their way to Mons in 1914. The ranks of the Royal Welch Fusiliers later included the poets Siegfried ...