(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 ...

Terence Davies, that most meticulous of auteurs, returns to the Toronto International Film Festival with “Benediction,” a lush biopic of Siegfried Sassoon, the poet and decorated veteran who became an ...

Davies follows his Emily Dickinson biopic "A Quiet Passion" with another painfully tender film about a kindred spirit. Editor’s note: This review was originally published at the 2021 Toronto ...