Benediction

[Opens June 3 in theaters.] After a military tribunal sends decorated, gay, 30-year-old, British second lieutenant and poet Siegfried Sassoon (Jack Lowden) to a psychiatric hospital in Scotland in 1914 because of his vocal protesting and poetry against the fighting during WWI in Terence Davies' award-winning, factually based, nonlinear, slow-paced, multilayered, well-acted, star-studded (Gemma Jones, Julian Sands, Geraldine James, Simon Russell Beale, Peter Capaldi, Anton Lesser, Ben Daniels, and Tom Blyth), 137-minute, 2021 biographical film dominated by stunning sets, costumes, and cinematography, he spends his idle time hanging out in high-society circles and hooking up with various homosexuals (Matthew Tennyson, Calam Lynch, and Jeremy Irvine) and eventually giving into norms and marrying an English woman (Kate Phillips) with whom he had a son (Richard Goulding).
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