{"id":455621,"date":"2022-03-09T14:43:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-benediction-take-one-festival-coverage-and-film-reviews\/"},"modified":"2022-03-09T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T11:43:40","slug":"watch-benediction-take-one-festival-coverage-and-film-reviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-benediction-take-one-festival-coverage-and-film-reviews\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch  Benediction | TAKE ONE | Festival Coverage and Film Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e091e36bf8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a4e091e36bf8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-benediction-take-one-festival-coverage-and-film-reviews\/#%E2%80%9CBenediction_TAKE_ONE_Festival_Coverage_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Benediction | TAKE ONE | Festival Coverage Watch Online&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CBenediction_TAKE_ONE_Festival_Coverage_Watch_Online%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Benediction | TAKE ONE | Festival Coverage Watch Online&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/index-150x150.png\" alt=\"Glasgow Film Festival logo\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-38851\" srcset=\"https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/index-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/index-45x45.png 45w, https:\/\/takeonecinema.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/index.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\"\/><strong>Terence Davies\u2019 latest film, BENEDICTION, is a biopic of the poet, Siegfried Sassoon, charting his life as a gay man in the 1920s traumatised by the horrors of the First World War. Despite some narrative unevenness and an exquisitely mannered style that some will find hard to stomach, BENEDICTION is an interesting film that wrestles <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>ly with the idea of how to depict the effervescence of poetry on film.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BENEDICTION starts as if falling into a dream. There\u2019s a succession of seemingly disconnected vignettes overlaid with a voiceover reading Sassoon\u2019s war poetry. We see the poet as a young man (played by Jack Lowden) sent back to England from the Somme due to trench fever. We see black and white stills of lonely battlefields and dead soldiers in trenches across Europe. We see Sassoon as an older man (played by Peter Capaldi) lost and turning to Catholicism to provide some stability at the end of his life. It\u2019s an interesting <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to depicting the diffuse abstraction of poetry by combining poetic narration and a dream-like profusion of scenes. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cLowden looks like a mix between Simon Pegg and Michael Fassbender and is able to bring the qualities of both actors to his performance\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The film soon falls into a narrative rhythm and follows Sassoon\u2019s career as a soldier and poet from a military hospital in Edinburgh to the parlours of London. Along the way, he meets other literary figures of the time including Wilfred Owen (Matthew Tennyson) and Robbie Ross (Simon Russell Beale) as well as Sassoon\u2019s succession of young lovers including Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine) and Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch). <\/p>\n<p>Sassoon saunters from engagement to engagement in a succession of scenes where characters trade acerbic and Wildean one-liners back and forth. Simon Russell Beale stands out as the delightfully bitchy Robbie Ross while Jeremy Irvine\u2019s Novello has a shocking streak of actual cruelty wrapped in the manners of a musical theatre actor. These scenes of endless mordant witticisms are fun once you\u2019re dialled into them but the privilege and upper-class excess on display will not be for everyone. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout his early life, Sassoon is played by Jack Lowden who delivers an incredible central performance. Lowden looks like a mix between Simon Pegg and Michael Fassbender and is able to bring the qualities of both actors to his performance with the intensity of Fassbender alongside the gentle humour of Pegg. His performance is so strong that it\u2019s almost a disappointment when the film flashes to Sassoon\u2019s later life when Peter Capaldi takes over and delivers a solid if unmemorable performance as a Sassoon who knows all too well that his best years are behind him. <\/p>\n<p>The defining relationship of Sassoon\u2019s life proves to be with young aristocrat and dilettante, Stephen Tennant, who comes back to Sassoon later in life (played by Anton Lesser) to ask for forgiveness. However the script fails to adequately depict the early stages of this relationship, instead spending more time with Ivor Novello and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth). Tennant\u2019s prominence in Sassoon\u2019s later life comes as a surprise given how slim his early scenes are and how insignificant he seems as a figure in young Sassoon\u2019s life. We\u2019re told rather than shown how significant this relationship is to Sassoon and that\u2019s a shame for a script that otherwise works very well. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Benediction - Trailer - In Cinemas This Spring\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6L38k6l9DFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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