BENEDICTION QA, TIFF 2021
The team behind BENEDICTION in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Terence Davies latest is an equally sombre and sumptuous portrait of 20thcentury English poet and soldier Siegfried Sassoon. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit Writerdirector Terence Davies was last at the Festival with the Emily Dickenson biopic A QUIET PASSION. A companion to its predecessor, Davies latest is a sumptuous portrait of 20thcentury English poet Siegfried Sassoon, and the first time the filmmaker has explicitly portrayed love and desire between men. BENEDICTIONs form is a lyrical stream of consciousness, following associations of memory rather than chronology. Davies crafts Sassoons experience of the First World War in layers of heroism (he was decorated for bravery on the Western Front), loss, and unfathomable trauma. His attempt at conscientious objection to the war
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