“Benediction” is structured like a regretful sigh, its disjointed scenes bound together by the anguish of lost time (much of what feels messy on first watch becomes poetic on the second).

‘Benediction’ Review: Ode to Excess Terence Davies writes and directs a film about World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon that focuses less on his experiences in the Great War and more on his ...

“Benediction,” which is about the British poet Siegfried Sassoon, is in some ways a more conventional affair. Sassoon, whose life stretched from the late Victorian era into the 1960s, is ...

“Benediction,” Terence Davies’ achingly beautiful portrait of the English war poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon, is a movie of acute sadness and intense pleasure.

Scott Simon talks with director Terence Davies about the new film "Benediction." It's on the life of English poet Siegfried Sassoon, one of the leading poets of World War I.

Davies’s new film, “Benediction,” which opens Friday, is an inside-out bio-pic of the British poet Siegfried Sassoon; it follows many of the familiar contours of the genre, but, above all ...

The benediction service was to be held at the little chapel, and each peasant was to pay for one or more masses, according to his means, for his own cow. Our offers to contribute in special cases ...