Review of Benediction (2021) by Justin Chang for Los Angeles Times — 02 Jun 2022
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 inextricable, which seems fitting, given how closely aesthetic bliss and moral despair were entwined in Sassoon’s own art.
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This review of Benediction (2021) was written by Justin Chang and published by Los Angeles Times on 02 Jun 2022.
Benediction has generally received positive reviews.
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