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Jack Lowden is perfectly cast as the younger Sassoon, a war hero who received a Military Cross in July 1916 for “conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy’s trenches” on the western front.
Read full review at The Guardian...offering some of the sharpest, nimblest dialogue of writer-director Terence Davies’ estimable career.
Read full review at EmpireTerence Davies explores the tragic and complex life of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon in this elegantly moving biopic.
Read full review at Little White LiesThe poem may be somewhat dated today in its conceptualism, but still: Listen, and weep.
Read full review at The Austin Chronicle...feels like a crowbarring open of the soul.
Read full review at The Telegraph...Davies’ handling of the material is so exquisite that the overbearing melancholy becomes, in the end, a work of poetry.
Read full review at The A.V. Club...painfully tender film about a kindred spirit.
Read full review at Indie Wire...as beautifully rendered as the prose penned by its subject.
Read full review at Common Sense Media