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Where are You My Love?

BENEDICTION
BENEDICTION

• Director: Terence Davies
• UK / 2021 / DCP / Colour / 137’ / English; Turkish s.t.

• Screenplay: Terence Davies
• Director of Photography: Nicola Daley
• Editing: Alex Mackie
• Cast: Jack Lowden, Peter Capaldi, Gemma Jones, Ben Daniels, Kate Phillips, Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Geraldine James
• Producer: Michael Elliott
• Production Co.: Emu Films, M.Y.R.A. Entertainment Europe
• World Sales: Bankside Films

2022 Dublin Best Screenplay
2021 San Sebastian Best Screenplay
2022 International Cinephile Society Best Actor, Best Original Screenplay, Best Cinematography

Benediction explores the turbulent life of First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered filmmaker Terence Davies, known for his cinematic poems. Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War against German forces and was decorated with the Military Cross for his bravery but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. As a war hero and as a fierce opponent of the war, he attempted to come to terms with his homosexuality, and tried to find salvation within the conformity of marriage and religion. His story is one of a troubled man in a fractured world searching for peace and self-acceptance, something which speaks as meaningfully to the modern world as it did then.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.