“Benediction” is a film about a man on the cusp of happiness.
He yearns for so much: love, acceptance, redemption.
But he only skirts around them, and never receives them, in one of the great quiet tragedies of this year.Terence Davies (“A Quiet Passion“) writes and directs “Benediction,” a biographical drama about one of the most celebrated Great War poets, Siegfried Sassoon, renowned for his anti-war sentiments and his association with the Bright Young Things — the group of moneyed socialites in 1920s London — as well as his long-hidden homosexuality.
But despite the legacy he left, and the famous people that he brushed shoulders with, the…The post Benediction Director Terence Davies Hasn’t Found Redemption [Interview] appeared first on /Film.
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