Benediction, from director Terence Davies, examines the life and secret affairs of queer English war poet Siegfried Sassoon - ABC News

British director Terence Davies’s ninth feature centres on Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and decorated war veteran who suffered from shell shock and struggled to find 'redemption' from his secret queer romances.

Terence Davies does not attempt to re-create the putrid trenches of the Western Front in his new film about the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. Best remembered as mentor to Wilfred Owen, he was awarded t… [+6462 chars]

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