Review: Benediction

Although more than a hundred years have passed since its inception, the world has never truly forgotten how much the First World War changed virtually every aspect of modern society – and the arts was no exception. The war gave birth to a whole new generation of ‘war poets’, with a few among them, such as Wilfred Owens and Robert Graves, having since become the most recognizable. However, there are very few quite as illustrious as Siegfried Sassoon, the focal character of the latest film from Terence Davies: Benediction

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