“Benediction” is structured like a regretful sigh, its disjointed scenes bound together by the anguish of lost time (much of what feels messy on first watch becomes poetic on the second).

‘Benediction’ Review: Ode to Excess Terence Davies writes and directs a film about World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon that focuses less on his experiences in the Great War and more on his ...

‘Benediction’ Review: Terence Davies Finds Room for Himself in a Heartbreaking Siegfried Sassoon Biopic Reviewed at San Sebastian Film Festival (Competition), Sept. 18, 2021.

“Benediction,” which is about the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, is in some ways a more conventional affair. Sassoon, whose life stretched from the late Victorian era into the 1960s, ...

“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 ...

Scott Simon talks with director Terence Davies about the new film "Benediction." It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I.

Davies’s new film, “Benediction,” which opens Friday, is an inside-out bio-pic of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon; it follows many of the familiar contours of the genre, but, above all ...

The benediction was their peculiar festival. They were the hosts and hostesses of the occasion, discharging the duties of the office towards their foreign guests with a natural grace and kindliness.

A priest who gave the benediction at former President Donald Trump's campaign rally spoke of "people who want to shoot" the GOP presidential candidate just before the assassination attempt.