As he told GAY TIMES earlier this year, “I’ve been searching for that redemption, and I haven’t found it either.”Ĭast: Amandla Stenberg, Maria Bakalova, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, Lee Pace, Pete Davidson, Conner O’Malley Davies has always injected himself into his works, but it’s Sassoon’s need for redemption that makes Benediction one of his “most autobiographical” films to date. Thanks to Lowden’s tender and complex performance, we come to understand his inner conflict with his sexuality and art at a time that rejected the very existence of LGBTQ+ identities, while Capaldi shines as a tormented older version of Sassoon who’s turned to religion for meaning. The melancholic biographical drama, directed by acclaimed British filmmaker Terence Davies, doesn’t shy away from Sassoon’s queerness as it hones in on the combat veteran’s gay love affairs with Ivor Novello (Jeremy Irvine), Stephen Tennant (Calam Lynch) and Glen Byam Shaw (Tom Blyth), as well as his conversion to Catholicism. Starring Jack Lowden (and later Peter Capaldi) as Siegfried Sassoon, Benediction tells the story of the famed British poet whose anti-war stance notoriously culminated in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital. Cast: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels, Calam Lynch, Anton Lesser, Tom Blyth, Matthew Tennyson, Geraldine James, Richard Goulding, Lia Williams, Suzanne Bertish
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