It was a huge life, so I had to cut down that life to a reasonable amount of time on screen,” Davies recalls on the eve of the film’s world premiere in Toronto, where it is playing as a special presentation, before heading to San Sebastian’s main competition and the BFI London Film Festival. “Siegfried Sassoon really knew everybody in the world, he went everywhere. So writer/director Terence Davies knew it was essential to get to the core of the man to tell his story in Benediction. Siegfried Sassoon, the famed First World War English poet, lived a big life. Terence Davies directing Kate Phillips and Jack Lowden on ‘Benediction’
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